ARISTOTLE'S POETICS AND ENGLISH LITERATURE A Collection of Critical Essays Edited and with an Introduction Very Good-

1 corner of wraps creased. Small stain to foredge of textblock and last 2 pages. ; CONTENTS: I. James Harris: A Discourse on Music, Painting, and Poetry (1744) ; II. Henry James Pye: from A Commentary On The Poetics of Aristotle: Notes to Chapter XV (1792) ; III. Thomas Twining: On Poetry Considered as an Imitative Art (1789) ; IV. Thomas Taylor: From the Introduction to his translations of the Rhetoric, Poetic, and Nichomachean Ethics (1811) ; Note on Catharsis (1811) ; V. John Henry Cardinal Newman: Poetry, with Reference to Aristotle's Poetics (1829) ; VI. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch: A Note on the Poetics (1934) ; VII. John Gassner: Catharsis and the Modern Theater (1937, 1946) ; VIII. Maxwell Anderson: The Essence of Tragedy (1938) ; IX. Kenneth Burke: The Problem of the Intrinsic (1945) ; X. Francis Ferguson: On Certain Technical Concepts (1949) ; XI. Reuben A. Brower: The Heresy of Plot (1952) ; XIII. Elder Olson: The Poetic Method of Aristotle: Its Powers and Limitations (1952) ; XIII. Bernard Weinberg: From Aristotle to Pseudo-Aristotle (1953) ; XIV. Richard McKeon: Rhetoric and Poetic in the Philosophy of Aristotle (1965). ; 236 pages