About this title: This volume brings together the three most original and influential ancient Greek treatises on literature. Stephen Halliwell makes Aristotle's "Poetics" newly accessible with a reliable text and a translation that is both accurate and readable. His authoritative introduction traces the work's debt to earlier theorists,--especially Plato--and the ...
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Date Published: 1961
ISBN-13:9780809005277ISBN:0809005271
Description: A good reading copy only. Previous owners name inscribed inside front. May have underlining or highlighting throughout. -, Trade PaperBack, Good / read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN-13:9780472061662ISBN:0472061666
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: 1St Edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Date Published: 1961-01-01
ISBN-13:9780809005277ISBN:0809005271
Description: Very good. Very minimal damage to the cover (no holes or tears, only minimal scuff marks), in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, minimal to no highlighting/under. read more
Description: Acceptable. Book shows wear to cover edges and spine. Spine has creases. Corners bent/rounded. Cover may have folds or creases. Otherwise in good reading condition. read more
Binding: Trade pb
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Date Published: c1967
ISBN-13:9780472061662ISBN:0472061666
Description: Good. No dust jacket, as issued. Highlighting/Underlining. minimal underlining, light edhe wear, otherwise clean copy. Later printing. Illustrated by. 124 p. ; 20 cm. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Date Published: 1967
ISBN-13:9780472061662ISBN:0472061666
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Has a lot of underlining and margin marks with pencil. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 124 p. Ann Arbor Paperbacks. Audience: General/trade. read more
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"While this one may not make you laugh, cry or become a part of you, it will explain why everything else does. This is one worth owning and returning to, over and over again (as with much of the rest of Aristotle)."
"I do not recall what I thought of Aristotle's work. I read this when I was quite new to philosophy and poetry, so any influence it had has probably evaporated or else changed form into something unrecognisable from the parent stock."
"Where to start? Honestly, Poetics is one of those books that makes you admire the author while you want to strangle him. This work is highly influential, and you can see its influence in Western Literature in authors such as Shakespeare, Byron, and Miller. It also makes classical literature easy to understand, at least in terms of structure.
In short, if you are interested in literature, you should read this book.
But you will also want to strangle Aristotle. Yes, he's an ancient Greek and woman's lib was years away, but when he says something like, "Even a woman may be good, and also a slave; though the woman may be said to be an inferior being, and the slave quite worthless" or ". . .valour in a woman, or unscrupulous cleverness, is inappropriate" that makes a reader want to travel back in time and cheerfully strangle the b*st**d despite the knowledge of that was how things were back then.
Still, Aristotle's comments on literature, in particular tragedy, are still relevant today. This book is worth reading simply for that."
"I won't say this is the best book on literary theory I've ever read, but it may be the most straightforward. The main reason I give this five stars is that I think it's compulsory reading if you're going to study literature. Too many people quote this work or reference it, sometimes unconsciously. Being aware of what Aristotle has to say can be a great help in grasping what's being said.
If you're writing, it's not the worst thing you can pick up to read, either."
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