A founding text of European aestheticism and literary criticism, Poetics underpins our moden understanding of imaginative writing. Anthony Kenny's new translation is accompanied by associated material from Plato, Sir Philip Sidney, P. B. Shelley, and Dorothy L. Sayers and a wide-ranging introduction.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Introduction
- Note on the Texts and Translation
- Select Bibliography
- Chronology of Aristotle
- Outline of the Poetics
- from Plato's Republic, Books II, III, and X
- Aristotle's Poetics
- from Sir Philip Sidney's Apology for Poetry
- from P. B. Shelley's Defence of Poetry
- from Dorothy L. Sayers's Aristotle on Detective Fiction
- Explanatory Notes
- Note on Metre
- Glossary of Key Terms
- Index
