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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

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The truth is that, just as in the other imitative arts one imitation is always of one thing, so in poetry the story, as an imitation of action, must r...more

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We maintain, therefore, that the first essential, the life and soul, so to speak, of Tragedy is the Plot; and that the Characters come second—compare ...more