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 1 I   |              I~I PROPOSE to treat of Poetry in itself and of its various
 2 I   |    principles which come first.~Epic poetry and Tragedy, Comedy also
 3 I   |          Comedy also and Dithyrambic poetry, and the music of the flute
 4 I   |            are Dithyrambic and Nomic poetry, and also Tragedy and Comedy;
 5 IV  |                                   IV~Poetry in general seems to have
 6 IV  |         improvisations gave birth to Poetry.~Poetry now diverged in
 7 IV  | improvisations gave birth to Poetry.~Poetry now diverged in two directions,
 8 IV  |         originally employed when the poetry was of the satyric order,
 9 V   |           his themes and plots.~Epic poetry agrees with Tragedy in so
10 V   |             They differ in that Epic poetry admits but one kind of meter
11 V   |       admitted in Tragedy as in Epic poetry.~Of their constituent parts
12 V   |       Tragedy, knows also about Epic poetry. All the elements of an
13 VI  |                            VI~Of the poetry which imitates in hexameter
14 VI  |      connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy,
15 IX  |           the other what may happen. Poetry, therefore, is a more philosophical
16 IX  |              thing than history: for poetry tends to express the universal,
17 IX  |           this universality at which poetry aims in the names she attaches
18 XIV |             or very rarely, found in poetry. One instance, however,
19 XV  |              are the concomitants of poetry; for here too there is much
20 XVII|              lifelike reality. Hence poetry implies either a happy gift
21 XVII|          that give extension to Epic poetry. Thus the story of the Odyssey
22 XIX |       belongs to another art, not to poetry.~
23 XXII|          time it is mean—witness the poetry of Cleophon and of Sthenelus.
24 XXII|     lengthening, may be seen in Epic poetry by the insertion of ordinary
25 XXII|     dithyrambs, rare words to heroic poetry, metaphors to iambic. In
26 XXII|       metaphors to iambic. In heroic poetry, indeed, all these varieties
27 XXIV|                     XXIV~Again, Epic poetry must have as many kinds
28 XXIV|       thought they are supreme.~Epic poetry differs from Tragedy in
29 XXIV|            at a single sitting.~Epic poetry has, however, a great—a
30 XXIV|             the players. But in Epic poetry, owing to the narrative
31 XXIV|              has wider scope in Epic poetry, because there the person
32 XXV |       correctness is not the same in poetry and politics, any more than
33 XXV |           politics, any more than in poetry and any other art. Within
34 XXV |         other art. Within the art of poetry itself there are two kinds
35 XXV |             error is inherent in the poetry. But if the failure is due
36 XXV |              is not essential to the poetry. These are the points of
37 XXVI|             So we are told that Epic poetry is addressed to a cultivated
38 XXVI|             Again, Tragedy like Epic poetry produces its effect even
39 XXVI|          tragedy is superior to epic poetry in all these respects, and,
40 XXVI|           concerning Tragic and Epic poetry in general; their several