About the Book: Poetics (Pocket Classic)
"Comedy aims at representing men as worse, tragedy as better than in actual
life." meticulously enquiring into the emotional bent of man and his
psychological reactions, Aristotles poetics discusses the origins of epic poetry
and examines all poetry as being a form of imitation. It explores the various
components of tragedy—plot, character, diction, thought, spectacle, and song—and
its effects. A masterpiece of literary criticism, poetics has majorly influenced
literary theories. Even after centuries it continues to remain an evaluation
benchmark for literature..
About the Author: Aristotle
An ancient Greek philosopher, psychologist, moralist, scientist, metaphysician,
and pioneer of formal logic, Aristotle was born in 384