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, [...]