Aristotle’s Theory of Poetry & Fine Art – S H Butcher (1932)

S$69.00

Aristotle’s Theory of Poetry & Fine Art – S H Butcher (1932)

S$69.00

S H Butcher’s classic translation of Aristotle’s Poetics, with a detailed commentary and explanation.

Title: Aristotle’s Theory of Poetry and Fine Art, with a critical text and translation of The Poetics

Author: S. H. Butcher

Publisher: Macmillan and Co., 1932. Fourth edition.

Condition: Hardcover, with dust jacket. Good. Slight foxing to fly leaves, foxing to edges, inscription to endpaper. Small tears to dust jacket. 421pp., 9″x6″.

S H Butcher’s classic translation of Aristotle’s Poeticswith a detailed commentary and explanation.

About The Poetics (from Wikipedia):

Aristotle’s Poetics is the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory. In it, Aristotle offers an account of what he calls “poetry” (a term that derives from a classical Greek term, ποιητής, that means “poet; author; maker” and in this context includes verse drama – comedy, tragedy, and the satyr play – as well as lyric poetry and epic poetry). They are similar in the fact that they are all imitations but different in the three ways that Aristotle describes:

Differences in music rhythm, harmony, meter and melody.
Difference of goodness in the characters.
Difference in how the narrative is presented: telling a story or acting it out.