 | 1926 - 550 pages
...Being which is the highest object of all knowledge." "It is therefore evident," says Aristotle, "that it is not the function of the poet to relate what has happened, but what may happen." For poetry expresses the universal. Its subject matter is higher than history. Its creations move on... | |
 | Samuel Henry Butcher - 1895 - 418 pages
...be present or absent without being perceived, is not an organic part of the whole. It is, moreover, evident from what has been said, that it is not the...of the poet to relate what has • Happened, "but wliat may Tiappen.. — -/what ia possible . * A -?- ; . . , .-,„ ; jl^ J~C— — *• t' . r according... | |
 | Aristotle - 1898 - 144 pages
...presence or absence makes no visible difference, is not an organic part of the whole. IX It is, moreover, evident from what has been said, that it is not the...according to the law of probability or necessity. The 2 1451 b poet and the historian differ not by writing in verse or in prose. The work of Herodotus might... | |
 | Samuel Henry Butcher, Aristotle - 1898 - 454 pages
...or absence makes ^ no visible difference, is not an organic part of the whole. IX It is, moreover, evident from what has been said, that it is not the function of the poet to relate what lias" happened, but what may happen, — what is possible according to the law of probability or necessity.... | |
 | 1900 - 452 pages
...written on the parchment of time and eternity. "It is not the function of the poet," says Aristotle, "to relate what has happened but what may happen — what is possible according to the law of possibility or necessity. The poet and the historian differ not by writing in verse or in prose. The... | |
 | Aristotle - 1907 - 148 pages
...presence or absence makes no visible difference, is not an organic part of the whole. IX It is, moreover, evident from what has been said, that it is not the function of the poet to relate what I has happened, but what may happen, — what is possible according to the law of probability or necessity.... | |
 | Joel Elias Spingarn - 1908 - 374 pages
...life, using the term, not in the sense of a mere copy, but of a generalized representation of reality : 'It is not the function of the poet to relate what...what may happen, what is possible according to the laws of probability or necessity . . . Poetry tends to express the universal ; history, the particular.'... | |
 | Joel Elias Spingarn - 1908 - 374 pages
...using the term, not in the sense of a mere copy, but of a generalized representation of reality: ' It is not the function of the poet to relate what...what may happen, what is possible according to the laws of probability or necessity . . . Poetry tends to express the universal; history, the particular.'... | |
 | Joel Elias Spingarn - 1908 - 376 pages
...life, using the term, not in the sense of a mere copy, but of a generalized representation of reality : 'It is not the function of the poet to relate what...what may happen, what is possible according to the laws of probability or necessity . . . Poetry tends to express the universal ; history, the particular.'... | |
 | 1911 - 742 pages
...familiar passages in Aristotle, in the ninth, fifteenth, and twenty-fifth chapters of the Poetics. "It is not the function of the poet to relate what...according to the law of probability or necessity. ... By the universal I mean how a person of given character will on occasion speak or act, according... | |
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It is, moreover, evident from what has been said, that it is not the function of the poet to relate what has happened, but -what may happen, — what is possible according to the law of probability or necessity. 
