Poetics - Wikipedia In the Western world, the development and evolution of poetics featured three artistic movements concerned with poetical composition: (1) the formalist, (2) the objectivist, and (3) the Aristotelian [8] The Republic by Plato represents the first major Western work to treat the theory of poetry
The Poetics of Aristotle, by Aristotle - Project Gutenberg Following, then, the order of nature, let us begin with the principles which come first Epic poetry and Tragedy, Comedy also and Dithyrambic: poetry, and the music of the flute and of the lyre in most of their forms, are all in their general conception modes of imitation
Poetics by Aristotle Plot Summary | LitCharts In Poetics, Aristotle discusses poetry —both in general and in particular—and he also considers the effects of poetry on those who consume it and the proper way in which to construct a poetic plot for maximum effect
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Poetics | Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature Poetics can be distinguished from literary history, in that it focuses on literature as a system of possibilities rather than as a historical sequence or a practice in history, although categories from poetics will be important for any study of the evolution of literature
Poetics | treatise by Aristotle | Britannica The Poetics is much better known than the Rhetoric, though only the first book of the former, a treatment of epic and tragic poetry, survives The book aims, among other things, to answer Plato’s criticisms of representative art