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 1 I    |  plot as requisite to a good poem; into the number and nature
 2 I    |      of the parts of which a poem is composed; and similarly
 3 IV   |     praises of famous men. A poem of the satirical kind cannot
 4 V    |      the elements of an Epic poem are found in Tragedy, but
 5 V    |    not all found in the Epic poem.~
 6 XVIII|    of the Iliad. In the Epic poem, owing to its length, each
 7 XXIII|      Troy the subject of his poem, though that war had a beginning
 8 XXIII| others—thus diversifying the poem. All other poets take a
 9 XXIV |      mass and dignity to the poem. The Epic has here an advantage,
10 XXIV |   experience. If a narrative poem in any other meter or in
11 XXIV |      one has ever composed a poem on a great scale in any
12 XXIV |   them back. But in the Epic poem the absurdity passes unnoticed.
13 XXV  |     or any other part of the poem is thus rendered more striking.
14 XXVI | shown by this, that any Epic poem will furnish subjects for
15 XXVI |      unity,] if, I mean, the poem is constructed out of several
16 XXVI |       the causes that make a poem good or bad; the objections