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This edition includes a preface, introduction and appendix.
"Ancient Sources" gives readers the opportunity to consider the
epic, dramatic, philosophical and rhetorical texts that influenced
the Poetics. Modern interpretations speak to the enduring relevance
of this ancient creation.
Aristotle's doctrines are basic to every critical discussion of
Greek tragedy and of other literary forms. Although the Poetics has
often been denounced or rejected, such rejection is usually the
result of a misunderstanding of what Aristotle says. And that is
where Hutton's work is uniquely important.
Commentators have long recognized the need to view the Poetics
in the context of its creation and it re-emergence in the
Renaissance. Few, if any, however, have had the necessary
combination of talents that James Hutton possessed as an
accomplished Hellenist with a particularly strong background in
Greek philosophy, a graceful stylist in English, and a leading
authority on the Renaissance humanists.
To supplement his translation, Hutton has provided full
explanatory and glossarial notes. In his introduction he discusses
the work in terms of Aristotelian thought and its Platonic roots,
thereby correcting the dogmatism that often attends study of the
Poetics. The introduction also fully outlines the work's historical
influence.
WE have found, that there is not in this globe (as a planet
revolving in the solar system) any power or motion adapted to the
purpose now in view; nor, were there such a power, could a mass of
simply collected materials have continued any considerable time to
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been quickly carried away, and again deposited at the bottom of the
ocean.
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