{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/ari/poe/poe01.htm","path":"cla/ari/poe/poe01.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/ari/poe/poe01.htm","text":"| I | 'Imitation' the common principle of the Arts of Poetry. | \n| II | The Objects of Imitation. | \n| III | The Manner of Imitation. | \n| IV | The Origin and Development of Poetry. | \n| V | Definition of the Ludicrous, and a brief sketch of the rise of Comedy. | \n| VI | Definition of Tragedy. | \n| VII | The Plot must be a Whole. | \n| VIII | The Plot must be a Unity. | \n| IX | (Plot continued.) Dramatic Unity. | \n| X | (Plot continued.) Definitions of Simple and Complex Plots. | \n| XI | (Plot continued.) Reversal of the Situation, Recognition, and Tragic or disastrous Incident defined and explained. | \n| XII | The 'quantitative parts' of Tragedy defined. | \n| XIII | (Plot continued.) What constitutes Tragic Action. | \n| XIV | (Plot continued.) The tragic emotions of pity and fear should spring out of the Plot itself. | \n| XV | The element of Character in Tragedy. | \n| XVI | (Plot continued.) Recognition: its various kinds, with examples. | \n| XVII | Practical rules for the Tragic Poet. | \n| XVIII | Further rules for the Tragic Poet. | \n| XIX | Thought, or the Intellectual element, and Diction in Tragedy. | \n| XX | Diction, or Language in general. | \n| XXI | Poetic Diction. | \n| XXII | (Poetic Diction continued.) How Poetry combines elevation of language with perspicuity. | \n| XXIII | Epic Poetry. | \n| XXIV | (Epic Poetry continued.) Further points of agreement with Tragedy. | \n| XXV | Critical Objections brought against Poetry, and the principles on which they are to be answered. | \n| XXVI | A general estimate of the comparative worth of Epic Poetry and Tragedy. |","title":"Poetics of Aristotle: Analysis of Contents","type":"page"}