Aristotle for Everybody or Difficult Thought Made Easy
August: Osage County

Poetics

PoeticsPoetics by Aristotle
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

I first read the Poetics when I was a freshman in college, I believe, and I re-read them today, while enjoying this rainy, lazy Saturday.

In my memory the Poetics were significant for understanding the structure of all subsequent Western literature (including those who acted against Aristotle's strictures). In rereading today, I didn't find as much of that as I remembered. Much seemed very boring. And Aristotle comes off, as he regularly does, as a stiff who wouldn't be very pleasant to be around. "If he has all these rules for drama and poetry, then he can't be much fun," sort of thing.

I'm glad I read this book back in the day, but it didn't do anything for me to read it again.

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