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1 I | persons who, by conscious art or mere habit, imitate and
2 I | movement.~There is another art which imitates by means
3 IV | larger and higher form of art.~Whether Tragedy has as
4 VI | is, that novices in the art attain to finish of diction
5 VI | function of the political art and of the art of rhetoric:
6 VI | political art and of the art of rhetoric: and so indeed
7 VI | connected least with the art of poetry. For the power
8 VI | effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than
9 VIII| merit, here too—whether from art or natural genius—seems
10 XIII| according to the rules of art should be of this construction.
11 XIV | subjects of tragedy. It was not art, but happy chance, that
12 XVI | that account wanting in art. For example, Orestes in
13 XIX | knowledge belongs to the art of Delivery and to the masters
14 XIX | censure upon the poet’s art. For who can admit the fault
15 XIX | that belongs to another art, not to poetry.~
16 XXIV| chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skilfully.
17 XXV | in poetry and any other art. Within the art of poetry
18 XXV | any other art. Within the art of poetry itself there are
19 XXV | example, or in any other art—the error is not essential
20 XXV | which concern the poet’s own art. If he describes the impossible,
21 XXV | justified, if the end of the art be thereby attained (the
22 XXV | special rules of the poetic art, the error is not justified:
23 XXV | essentials of the poetic art, or some accident of it?
24 XXV | respect to the requirements of art, a probable impossibility
25 XXVI| higher. If the more refined art is the higher, and the more
26 XXVI| better sort of audience, the art which imitates anything
27 XXVI| held of Pindarus. Tragic art, then, as a whole, stands
28 XXVI| poetic but to the histrionic art; for gesticulation may be
29 XXVI| representation. Moreover, the art attains its end within narrower
30 XXVI| specific function better as an art—for each art ought to produce,
31 XXVI| better as an art—for each art ought to produce, not any
32 XXVI| that tragedy is the higher art, as attaining its end more
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