Poetics

• A fluent new translation by our greatest living historian of philosophy of the most influential book on poetry ever written.
• Aristotle's Poetics is here presented in a unique edition together with related extracts from Plato and more modern responses to Aristotle from Sir Philip Sidney, Shelley, and Dorothy L. Sayers.
• Wide-ranging Introduction considers the philosophical underpinnings to Aristotle's literary criticism and the ideas about poetry, drama, and tragedy that have influenced writers and dramatists ever since, with reference to other art forms and modern writers.
• Includes helpful notes, a glossary of key terms, and an index.

Readership: Students of classics, philosophy, literature, tragedy, criticism, drama. General readers of classical literature, philosophy, poetry.

Aristotle

Sir Anthony Kenny is a distinguished philosopher whose books include The Aristotelian Ethics (1978), Aristotle's Theory of the Will (1979), and Aristotle on the Perfect Life (1992). His most recent book is A New History of Western Philosophy (2010). For Oxford World's Classics he has translated Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics.

Introduction
Note on the Texts and Translation
Select Bibliography
Chronology of Aristotle
Outline of the Poetics
from Plato's Republic, Books II, III, and X
Aristotle's Poetics
from Sir Philip Sidney's Apology for Poetry
from P. B. Shelley's Defence of Poetry
from Dorothy L. Sayers's Aristotle on Detective Fiction
Explanatory Notes
Note on Metre
Glossary of Key Terms
Index