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 1 I    |      principles which come first.~Epic poetry and Tragedy, Comedy
 2 I    |        speak of elegiac poets, or epic (that is, hexameter) poets,
 3 IV   |        writers of Comedy, and the Epic poets were succeeded by
 4 V    | generalized his themes and plots.~Epic poetry agrees with Tragedy
 5 V    |         type. They differ in that Epic poetry admits but one kind
 6 V    |           this limit, whereas the Epic action has no limits of
 7 V    |         admitted in Tragedy as in Epic poetry.~Of their constituent
 8 V    |         Tragedy, knows also about Epic poetry. All the elements
 9 V    |            All the elements of an Epic poem are found in Tragedy,
10 V    |          are not all found in the Epic poem.~
11 XVII |      these that give extension to Epic poetry. Thus the story of
12 XVIII|       often said, and not make an Epic structure into a tragedy—
13 XVIII|    structure into a tragedy—by an Epic structure I mean one with
14 XVIII|        story of the Iliad. In the Epic poem, owing to its length,
15 XXII |       lengthening, may be seen in Epic poetry by the insertion
16 XXIV |                       XXIV~Again, Epic poetry must have as many
17 XXIV |         thought they are supreme.~Epic poetry differs from Tragedy
18 XXIV |    presented at a single sitting.~Epic poetry has, however, a great—
19 XXIV |      taken by the players. But in Epic poetry, owing to the narrative
20 XXIV |          dignity to the poem. The Epic has here an advantage, and
21 XXIV |       effects, has wider scope in Epic poetry, because there the
22 XXIV |      waving them back. But in the Epic poem the absurdity passes
23 XXVI |         may be raised whether the Epic or Tragic mode of imitation
24 XXVI |       then, as a whole, stands to Epic in the same relation as
25 XXVI |       actors. So we are told that Epic poetry is addressed to a
26 XXVI |        may be equally overdone in epic recitation, as by Sosistratus,
27 XXVI |        women. Again, Tragedy like Epic poetry produces its effect
28 XXVI |         is, because it has an the epic elements—it may even use
29 XXVI |      elements—it may even use the epic meter—with the music and
30 XXVI |         the Iliad? Once more, the Epic imitation has less unity;
31 XXVI |           shown by this, that any Epic poem will furnish subjects
32 XXVI |         or, if it conforms to the Epic canon of length, it must
33 XXVI |            tragedy is superior to epic poetry in all these respects,
34 XXVI |     suffice concerning Tragic and Epic poetry in general; their