Aristotle's Poetics

Here is a new translation, remarkable for its accuracy and refreshing clarity of exposition, of the first major work of literary criticism.

Aristotle's doctrines are basic to every critical discussion of Greek tragedy and of other literary forms. Although the Poetics has often been denounced or rejected, such rejection is usually the result of a misunderstanding of what Aristotle says. And that is where Hutton's work is uniquely important.

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