For another, even the book we have seems to be unrevised and unfinished. It originally consisted of two books, one dealing with Tragedy and Epic, the other with Comedy and other subjects.
For one thing the treatise is fragmentary. And the _Poetics_ cannot be accounted an exception. They nearly all need study and comment, and at times help from a good teacher, before they yield up their secret. For we shall be gainers, I take it, if this can be proved.' Aristotle certainly knew the passage, and it looks as if his treatise on poetry was an answer to Plato's challenge.įew of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading. The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher: Containing His Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician His Experienced Midwife, His Book of Problems and His Remarks On PhysiognomyĪristotle.In the tenth book of the “Republic”, when Plato has completed his final burning denunciation of Poetry, the false Siren, the imitator of things which themselves are shadows, the ally of all that is low and weak in the soul against that which is high and strong, who makes us feed the things we ought to starve and serve the things we ought to rule, he ends with a touch of compunction: 'We will give her champions, not poets themselves but poet-lovers, an opportunity to make her defence in plain prose and show that she is not only sweet-as we well know-but also helpful to society and the life of man, and we will listen in a kindly spirit. Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Īristotle. The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher: Containing His Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician His Experienced Midwife, His Book of Problems and His Remarks On Physiognomy. Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Īristotle. The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher: Containing his Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy
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