March 20, 2008

Item of the Day: Pye’s Poetics of Aristotle (1792)

Full Title:
A Commentary Illustrating the Poetic of Aristotle, By Examples Taken Chiefly from the Modern Poets.  To Which is Prefixed, A new and corrected edition of the Translation of the Poetic.  By Henry James Pye, Esq.  London: Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly.  M.DCC.XCII.
COMMENTARY.  Chap. I. Note I.
The Epopee and Tragedy, as also comedy and dithyrambics, [...]