 | 1908 - 710 pages
...contained in those parts which have been lost. What we have is found in the Poetics, Book VI, chapter 2. " Tragedy is an imitation of an action that is serious,...artistic ornament, the several kinds being found in the separate parts of the play ; (/. e. verse without music in the dialogue, lyrical song in the chorus)... | |
 | 1921 - 558 pages
...a different field. In Butcher's rendering (somewhat abbreviated), tragedy, according to Aristotle, is — "an imitation of an action that is serious,...a certain magnitude; in language embellished with .... artistic ornament . . . . ; in the form of action, not of narration ; through pity and fear effecting... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1894 - 624 pages
...established canons—and fully satisfies Aristotle's summarised definition of tragedy as the ' representation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude.' The piece is an organic whole, exhibiting the tragic conflict of interest and motive, in the collision... | |
 | Samuel Henry Butcher - 1895 - 418 pages
...Dramatic Pottryl A CHAPTER VI THE FUNCTION OF TRAGEDY ARISTOTLE'S definition of tragedy1 runs thus : — ' Tragedy is an imitation of an action that is . serious, complete, and of a- certain magnitude; in guage embellished with each kind of artistic ament, the several kinds being found in separate parts... | |
 | Samuel Henry Butcher, Aristotle - 1898 - 454 pages
...as resulting from what has been already said. Tragedy, then, is an imitation of an action that is 2 serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude ; in...artistic ornament, the several kinds being found in separateparts of ¿he play ; in the form of action,not of narratrrej through pity and fear effecting... | |
 | John Dryden - 1898 - 232 pages
...essential to the tragic hero. The function of tragedy is stated in the famous definition (vi. 2) : "Tragedy is an imitation of an action that is serious,...a certain magnitude; in language embellished with every kind of artistic ornament, the several kinds being found in different parts of the play; in the... | |
 | Frederick Morgan Padelford - 1902 - 150 pages
...4 Odys. iv. 93. 6 Meineke iv. 266. 6 Medea 598. ' Phoeniss. 549. 3 Poet. vi. 2-3 : ' Tragedy, then, is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete,...several kinds being found in separate parts of the play. ... By " language embellished," I mean 72 the likeness of the truth, since the charm of imitation is... | |
 | John Edwin Sandys - 1903 - 722 pages
...time, and Tragedy has some constituent parts peculiar to itself (c. 5). Tragedy is then defined as ' an imitation of an action that is serious, complete,...the several kinds being found in separate parts of tin' play ; in the form of action, not of narrative ; through pity and fear effecting the proper purgation... | |
 | Leslie Cope Cornford - 1903 - 384 pages
...Aristotle, ' is an imitation ' (using the word in the Aristotelian sense of an idealised portrayal) ' of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude.' Tragedy is designed to satisfy what Plato calls the natural hunger after sorrow and weeping ; and in... | |
 | Lewis Campbell - 1904 - 308 pages
...philosopher's definition is thus translated by Professor Butcher : ' Tragedy is an imitation of an action, serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude ; in language embellished with each kind of ornament ; the several kinds being found in separate parts of the play ; in the form of action, not... | |
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Tragedy, then, is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude; in language embellished with each kind of artistic omament, the several kinds being found in separate parts of the play; in the form of action, not of narrative;... 
