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Patricia
06-15-2008, 09:59 PM
Aristotle on the Art of Poetry
Translated by Ingram Bywater
With A Preface by Gilbert Murray

First Published 1920

Aristotle’s literary criticism. He analyses epic poetry and tragedy. (There was also a book on comedy, but it has been lost.) The work contains Aristotle’s theory that tragedy is cathartic.