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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 edition. Excerpt: ... ANALYSIS OF ARISTOTLE'S POETIC, WITH THE ORIGINAL DEFINITIONS.* I.--1. On Poetry in general, its species and parts. 2. Now, all Poetry is an imitation, as also flute and cithernplaying, but they differ either in the means, the objects, or the manner of their imitation. 6. Epopee imitates fiovov role Xoyoie i/" DEGREES ie 5 ro'e /"Vpoie, either simple or mixed. 7. But custom has falsely connected the name of poet with the metre only, and not with their manner of imitation, as is shown in the case of Empedocles and Choeremon. 10. Dithyrambs, nomes, tragedy, and comedy employ all the means of imitation, but some do so all together, others separately. II.--1. But since actions are the objects of imitation, the characters must be bad or good, Kada yap Koi apery ra %Ori Siailitpovcri iravree; and hence men must be imitated either as they are, or under a more exalted or more contemptible view, as in the respective paintings of Dionysius, Polygnotus, and Pauson. The same thing holds good in other arts, and in Poetry, as is shown by Cleophon, Homer, and Hegemon respectively. 4. And hence' is the difference of tragedy and comedy, q fitv yap xfipove, q Sf fieXriove fufitiaQai fiovXerai rS>v vvv. III.--1. The third difference is as to the manner of imitation. For the poet may imitate the same object, and by the same means, but he may do so either, I. in narrative, i. e. by As I follow the text of Ritter, no analysis will of course be made of such passages as are satisfactorily proved, by this scholar, to be spurious, especially when such passages are but an analysis of what has been already said in the Rhetoric. personating other characters, or in his own person, II. Or he may represent vavras we irparrovrae Kcu ivtp-yovvras. 2. Since, ..."
