Poetics

I had to read it for class... It was complex and quite the brain fucker, however its essential nonetheless to understand the Western cannon.

Without exploring what has come before us, one is of infantile character. Aristotle's Poetics defined for us our modern appreciation of the arts as a real sensory expression filled with our deepest human emotions. There are those who believe, as Plato and Socrates enumerated, that the arts are lies, attempts to portray a meager perception allowed by the human mind. In Aristotle's...more

Without exploring what has come before us, one is of infantile character. Aristotle's Poetics defined for us our modern appreciation of the arts as a real sensory expression filled with our deepest human emotions. There are those who believe, as Plato and Socrates enumerated, that the arts are lies, attempts to portray a meager perception allowed by the human mind. In Aristotle's Poetics, the arts, themselves, communicate a truth and reality all there own which speaks directly to the emotive and rational parts of our human mind.   hide

the main work of theory of literature ...

Compliments the Republic brilliantly.