![]() ![]() It has been commented on by scholars too numerous to name and even more impressively by the likes of Averroes and Avicenna…, Racine and Corneille, Lessing and Goethe, Milton and Samuel Johnson. Of Aristotle’s writing more has had none staying power than On Poetics. Benardete may have been the most learned classical scholar of his generation.) Professor Davis opens the Introduction for this volume with these instructive observations (p. The best translation of the Poetics into English seems to be that by Seth Benardete and Michael Davis, published in 2002 by the St. It is an essay for which its author has available many useful corrections. ![]() Perhaps our discussion period after my prepared remarks will be helpful, contributing thereby to later reflections among us as we go our seperate ways after happening to serve as performers and audience in this theatre.Ī thoughtful introduction to the Poetics is provided by Laurence Berns’s essay in the 1964 Leo Strauss festschrift, Ancients and Moderns. This talk, on Aristotle’s Poetics, is intended to suggest many more questions than answers. ![]()
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