 | Samuel Henry Butcher - 1895 - 418 pages
...kind of metre, and iť% narrative in form. They differ, again, in length : for Tragedy endeavours, as far as possible, to confine itself to a single revolution...limit ; whereas the Epic action has no limits of time. This, then, is a second point of difference; though at first the same freedom was admitted in Tragedy... | |
 | American Philological Association - 1906 - 396 pages
...that Epic poetry admits but one kind of metre, and is narrative in form. They differ, again, in their length : for Tragedy endeavors, so far as possible,...this limit ; whereas the Epic action has no limits in time. This, then, is a second point of difference ; though at first the same freedom was admitted... | |
 | Aristotle - 1898 - 144 pages
...Kai /ieXos seclus. Tyrwhitt. 31. fiJtwov : fuSpia S length of the action : for Tragedy endeavours, as far as possible, to confine itself to a single revolution...limit ; whereas the Epic action has no limits of time. This, then, is a second point of difference ; though at first the same freedom was admitted in Tragedy... | |
 | Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris - 1898 - 208 pages
...verse of characters of a higher type. . . . They differ, again, in length : for Tragedy endeavors, as far as possible, to confine itself to a single revolution...limit; whereas the Epic action has no limits of time." " The first two passages quoted, emphasizing the need for what is technically known as " unity of action,"... | |
 | Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris - 1898 - 208 pages
...verse of characters of a higher type. . . . They differ, again, in length : for Tragedy endeavors, as far as possible, to confine itself to a single revolution...limit; whereas the Epic action has no limits of time." 2 The first two passages quoted, emphasizing the need for what is technically known as " unity of action,"... | |
 | Samuel Henry Butcher, Aristotle - 1898 - 454 pages
...*• t* ^ * ARISTOTLE'S POETICS V. 4— VI. 4 23 length of the action : for Tragedy endeavours, as far as possible, to confine itself to a single revolution of the sgn. or but slightly to exceed this limit ; whereas the Epic_action has no limits of time. This, then,... | |
 | 1900 - 720 pages
...was led, therefore, to make the empirical statement (Poet/en, ch. iv.), that " tragedy endeavors, as far as possible, to confine itself to a single revolution...limit ; whereas the epic action has no limits of time ; . . . though at first the same freedom was admitted in tragedy, as in •epic poetry." From this... | |
 | Leon Emile Kastner, Henry Gibson Atkins - 1907 - 360 pages
...Time all Aristotle says is, when comparing Epic poetry with Tragedy, that the latter "endeavours as far as possible to confine itself to a single revolution...limit; whereas the Epic action has no limits of time ". Thus Aristotle, far from laying down a hard-and-fast rule, only gives a piece of information ; and... | |
 | Charles Frederick Johnson - 1909 - 418 pages
...metre and is narrative in form. They differ again in the length of the action, for Tragedy endeavors as far as possible to confine itself to a single revolution...of the sun or but slightly to exceed this limit.' On this sentence is founded the rule of ' Unity of time.' Corneille, writing in 1656, Discours de I'utilite... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1909 - 402 pages
...misunderstanding of Aristotle's dictum (which was simply to the effect that " tragedy endeavors, as far as possible, to confine itself to a single revolution of the sun," in contrast to the limitless time of epic action), and chiefly to the exaggerated authority of classical... | |
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Tragedy endeavours, as far as possible, to confine itself to a single revolution of the sun, or but slightly to exceed this limit ; whereas the Epic action has no limits of time. 
