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" Poetry, therefore, is a more philosophical and a higher thing than history: for poetry tends to express the universal, history the particular. By the universal I mean how a person of a certain type will on occasion speak or act, according to the law of... "
A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance: With Special Reference ... - Page 28
by Joel Elias Spingarn - 1899 - 330 pages
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Examination Papers

Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.) - 1896 - 888 pages
...anything Itclong to the Self on Bradley's principles? 5. Criticise Bradley's view of Error. 6. " Poetry is a more philosophical and a higher thing than history...to express the universal, history the particular." Examine into the truth of this saving of Aristotle. 7. " Moral freedom is only of real importance for...
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The Poetics of Aristotle

Aristotle - 1898 - 144 pages
...relates what has happened, the other what may happen. Poetry, therefore, is a more philosophical and 3 a higher thing than history : for poetry tends to express the universal, history the particular. By the universal 4 I mean how a person of given character will on occasion speak or act, according...
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Aristotle's theory of poetry and fine art: with a critical text and ...

Samuel Henry Butcher, Aristotle - 1898 - 454 pages
...what has happened, the other what may happen. Poetry, therefore, is a more philosophical and .3 ^, a higher thing than history : for poetry tends to express the universal, history the particular. By the universal 4 I mean how a person of given character will on occasion speak or act, according...
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The New Humanism: Studies in Personal and Social Development

Edward Howard Griggs - 1899 - 250 pages
...understand the ideal rather than the conduct. It was such a thought that moved Aristotle when he said: "Poetry, therefore, is a more philosophical and a...to express the universal, history the particular." Many times a Greek myth, or a canto of Homer, will give one a deeper understanding of the Greek spirit...
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Studies in Virgil

Terrot Reaveley Glover - 1904 - 336 pages
...distinct. ' Poetry,' says Aristotle, ' is a more philosophical and a higher thing (iritou5cuoYepiw) than history ; for poetry tends to express the universal, history the particular. By the universal I mean how a person of given character will on occasion speak or act, according to...
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Discourses Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy

Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1905 - 564 pages
...lives in perpetual fear lest his trick should be discovered. INTRODUCTION TO THE THIRD DISCOURSE " Poetry, therefore, is a more philosophical and a higher...to express the universal, history the particular." — Aristotle, Poetics ix. 3 (Butcher's Translation). IN the Third Discourse Reynolds endeavours to...
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Poetry and the Individual: An Analysis of the Imaginative Life in Relation ...

Hartley Burr Alexander - 1906 - 268 pages
...of the universal in poetry, we are not left in doubt, — the Platonic Idea alone is meant. Poetry is a more philosophical and a higher thing than history...to express the universal, history the particular. By the universal I mean how a person of a certain type will on occasion speak or act, according to...
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Catalogue, Volume 3, Issues 1-5

Western Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian Church - 1910 - 350 pages
...and not written it as history because he holds to the doctrine of Aristotle's "Poetics," that poetry is a more philosophical and a higher thing than history:...to express the universal, history the particular. Our poet has followed the only manner in which true poetry has ever been penned; he has saturated himself...
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English Epic and Heroic Poetry, Volume 1

William Macneile Dixon - 1912 - 368 pages
...is epic no longer possible? " The poet and the historian differ," says Aristotle in the Poetics, " not by writing in verse or in prose. The work of Herodotus...to express the universal, history the particular." There is nothing to exclude, as Aristotle expressly allows, from the epic category the poem which has...
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Essentials of Poetry: Lowell Lectures, 1911

William Allan Neilson - 1912 - 302 pages
...discussing, in the works of Aristotle himself. " Poetry," he says in an oft-quoted passage in the Poetics, "is a more philosophical and a higher thing than history:...to express the universal, history the particular. By the universal I mean how a person of a certain type will on occasion speak or act, according to...
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