“ Poetry, therefore, is a more philosophical and a higher thing than history: for poetry tends to express the universal, history the particular. ”
Aristotle, Poetics (c. 335 BC). copy citation
Author | Aristotle |
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Source | Poetics |
Topic | philosophy poetry history |
Date | c. 335 BC |
Language | English |
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Note | Translated by S. H. Butcher |
Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1974/1974-h/1974-h.htm |