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1 I | meter, and speak of elegiac poets, or epic (that is, hexameter)
2 I | epic (that is, hexameter) poets, as if it were not the imitation
3 IV | another. Thus the older poets were distinguished as writers
4 IV | Homer is pre-eminent among poets, for he alone combined dramatic
5 IV | light, the two classes of poets still followed their natural
6 IV | of Comedy, and the Epic poets were succeeded by Tragedians,
7 V | definite shape when comic poets, distinctively so called,
8 VI | employed, we may say, by the poets to a man; in fact, every
9 VI | tragedies of most of our modern poets fail in the rendering of
10 VI | rendering of character; and of poets in general this is often
11 VI | with almost all the early poets.~The plot, then, is the
12 VI | and so indeed the older poets make their characters speak
13 VI | language of civic life; the poets of our time, the language
14 VIII | error, as it appears, of all poets who have composed a Heracleid,
15 IX | necessary sequence. Bad poets compose such pieces by their
16 IX | by their own fault, good poets, to please the players;
17 XIII | out our view. At first the poets recounted any legend that
18 XIII | be the most tragic of the poets.~In the second rank comes
19 XIV | the manner of the older poets. It is thus too that Euripides
20 XIV | happy chance, that led the poets in search of subjects to
21 XVIII| have hitherto been good poets, each in his own branch,
22 XVIII| Unraveling are the same. Many poets tie the knot well, but unravel
23 XVIII| expectation. The proof is that the poets who have dramatized the
24 XVIII| Sophocles. As for the later poets, their choral songs pertain
25 XXIII| practice, we may say, of most poets. Here again, then, as has
26 XXIII| diversifying the poem. All other poets take a single hero, a single
27 XXIV | makes him an imitator. Other poets appear themselves upon the
28 XXIV | has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies
29 XXV | which we concede to the poets. Add to this, that the standard
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