Title: The Poetics
Authors: Aristotle, Aristoteles
Keywords: literary theory;Ancient Greek poetry;Ancient Greek philosophy;Ancient Greek drama
Issue Date: 2008
Publisher: Project Gutenberg
Abstract: Aristotle's Poetics (Greek: Περὶ ποιητικῆς / Peri poietikês; Latin) written pronanly ca. 335 BC is the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory.In this text Aristotle offers an account of ποιητική, which refers to poetry or more literally "the poetic art," deriving from the term for "poet; author; maker," ποιητής. Aristotle divides the art of poetry into verse drama (to include comedy, tragedy, and the satyr play), lyric poetry, and epic.
URI: https://tlor.svkos.cz/handle/123456789/313
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