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 | Queensland. Department of Public Instruction - 1912 - 234 sider
...(6) "The King is really all the play ; it is a magnificent monologue, and he the speaker of it." (e) "The poet's function is to describe, not the thing that has happened, but the kind of ti>ing that might happen — ie, wh.it is possible as being probable or necessary. Hence... | |
 | Aristotle - 1920 - 100 sider
...which makes no perceptible difference by its presence or absence is no real part of the whole. 9 * From what we have said it will be seen that the poet's...poet is not in the one writing prose and the other verse-1- you might put the work of Herodotus into verse, and it would still be a species of history... | |
 | Aristotle - 1924 - 376 sider
...;ibsencc is no real part of the whole. 35 From what we have said it will be seen that the poet's 9 function is to describe, not the thing that has happened,...being probable or necessary. The distinction between 145lb historian and poet is not in the one writing prose and the other verse — you might put the... | |
 | 1925 - 478 sider
...with the beginning, nor the end with the middle." Aristotle goes into the question at greater length:* From what we have said it will be seen that the poet's...necessary. The distinction between historian and poet consists really in this, that the one describes i Are poetica. pp. 338 ff. * Ibiil.. pp. 15O-52. '... | |
 | Aristotle - 1920 - 100 sider
...that which makes no perceptible difference by its presence or absence is no real part of the whole. From what we have said it will be seen that the poet's...poet is not in the one writing prose and the other verse—you might put the work of Herodotus into verse, and it would still be a species of history;... | |
 | Meyer Howard Abrams - 1971 - 420 sider
...ide.1l space, and available only to the eye of the mind. The poet, Aristode had said, does not describe 'the thing that has happened, but a kind of thing that might happen. . . Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements... | |
 | Albert Hofstadter, Richard Kuhns - 2009 - 730 sider
...which makes no perceptible difference by its presence or 35 absence is no real part of the whole. 9 From what we have said it will be seen that the poet's...might happen, ie what is possible as being probable or 5ib necessary. The distinction between historian and poet is not in the one writing prose and the other... | |
 | Tzvetan Todorov - 1984 - 310 sider
...and the poet, who paints the general. Let us consider a famous passage: The distinction between the historian and poet is not in the one writing prose and the other verse . . . ; it consists really in this, that the one describes the thing that has been, and the other a... | |
 | Stephen David Ross - 1984 - 590 sider
...understanding of art as an imitation of particular things (Book X, Republic), but a concern with reality, "to describe, not the thing that has happened, but a kind of thing that might happen." Aristotle answers Plato on two counts: the value of imitation and the benefits of the kinds of emotional... | |
 | Jerome Bruner - 1986 - 220 sider
...metaphoric perspective on the world of nature. Aristotle in the Poetics (II.9) puts the conclusion well: 'The poet's function is to describe, not the thing...ie, what is possible as being probable or necessary . . . And if he should come to take a subject from actual history, he is none the less a poet for that;... | |
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