Poetics
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"Poetics" is an important aesthetic treatise by Aristotle (now commonly translated as Aristotle). Its original name is literally translated as "On Poetry", which means "discussing the art of poetry". Aristotle divided science into three categories based on the differences in human activities. Among them, creative science, where poetry is located, is the third category. The author believes that it is a course that his disciples should learn at the end of their studies. It can make people become poets and orators. There are twenty-six chapters in this book, which mainly discuss the origin, writing style, and evaluation of tragedy and epic. In the book, Aristotle answered questions about poetry raised by his teacher Plato, from which we can see the author's materialist aesthetic views, which deeply influenced later generations of writers and literary researchers starting from the seventeenth century.
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