 | William John Courthope - 1901 - 474 Seiten
...The drama is superior to the epic because it affords the most vivid combination of pleasures : " " The poet is guided in what he writes by the wishes of his audience ; the pleasure, however, hence derived " (that is, from the happy endings of tragedies) " is not the true tragic pleasure."... | |
 | Aristotle - 1907 - 148 Seiten
...though he may be in the general management of his subject, yet is felt to be the most tragic of the poets. In the second rank comes the kind of tragedy...opposite catastrophe for the good and for the bad. It is accounted the best because of the weakness of the spectators ; for the poet is guided in what he writes... | |
 | 1916 - 464 Seiten
...virtuous and the punishment of the bad, and he adds that such an ending is "accounted the best because of the weakness of the spectators; for the poet is guided...what he writes by the wishes of his audience." The novelist can end his story logically in accordance with human justice or human injustice. He can paint... | |
 | 1919 - 694 Seiten
...most dramatic'] in effect. In the second rank comes the kind of tragedy which some place first. ... It has a double thread of plot, and also an opposite catastrophe for the good and for the bad. It is accounted the best because of the weakness of the spectators; for the poet is guided in what he writes... | |
 | William Alexander Earl of Stirling - 1921 - 924 Seiten
...as conforming to the kind of tragedy Aristotle placed in the second rank, although " some place [it] first. Like the Odyssey it has a double thread of...opposite catastrophe for the good and for the bad. It is accounted the best because of the weakness of the spectators ; for the poet is guided in what he writes... | |
 | George Howe, Gustave Adolphus Harrer - 1924 - 672 Seiten
...yet is felt to be the most tragic of the poets. In the second rank comes the kind of tragedy which some place first. Like the Odyssey, it has a double...opposite catastrophe for the good and for the bad. It is accounted the best because of the weakness of the spectators; for the poet is guided in what he writes... | |
 | Samuel Henry Butcher, Aristotle, John Gassner - 1951 - 516 Seiten
...though he may be in the general management of his subject, yet is felt to be the moet tragic of the poets. In the second rank comes the kind of tragedy...Odyssey, it has a double thread of plot, and also an oppoeite catastrophe for the good and for the bad. It is accounted the best because of the weakness... | |
 | Hanna Scolnicov, Peter Holland - 1989 - 246 Seiten
...have described, or better than worse, (p. 47: 2. In the second rank comes the kind of tragedy which some place first. Like the Odyssey, it has a double...also an opposite catastrophe for the good and for the had. It is aecounted the best because of the weakness of the spectators; for the poet is guided in... | |
 | Arthur B. Coffin - 1991 - 354 Seiten
...yet is felt to be the most tragic of the poets. 7. In the second rank comes the kind of tragedy which some place first. Like the Odyssey, it has a double...opposite catastrophe for the good and for the bad. It is accounted the best because of the weakness of the spectators; for the poet is guided in what he writes... | |
 | Yvonne Fuentes - 1999 - 364 Seiten
...vice? And what, we ask, could be less Aristotelian? Aristotle carefully condemns the tragedy that has "an opposite catastrophe for the good and for the bad". It is proper rather to comedy. The neo-classicist, though he may have thought that he has the support of... | |
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In the second rank comes the kind of tragedy which some place first. Like the Odyssey, it has a double thread of plot and also an opposite catastrophe for the good and for the bad. It is accounted the best because of the weakness of the spectators, for... 
