 | Samuel Henry Butcher - Aesthetics - 1895 - 418 pages
...was the first who, abandoning the ' iambic ' or lampooning form, generalised his themes and plots. Epic poetry agrees with Tragedy in so far as it is an 4 imitatiorTm verse ot characters of a higher type.^ They differ, in that Epic poetry admits but one... | |
 | Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris - Drama - 1898 - 208 pages
...that, if any one of them is displaced or removed, the whole will be disjointed and disturbed." ' " Epic poetry agrees with Tragedy in so far as it is...of characters of a higher type. . . . They differ, again, in length : for Tragedy endeavors, as far as possible, to confine itself to a single revolution... | |
 | Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris - Drama - 1898 - 218 pages
...that, if any one of them is displaced or removed, the whole will be disjointed and disturbed." l " Epic poetry agrees with Tragedy in so far as it is...of characters of a higher type. . . . They differ, again, in length : for Tragedy endeavors, as far as possible, to confine itself to a single revolution... | |
 | Charles Frederick Johnson - 1909 - 418 pages
...all dramatic construction. Speaking of the distinction between Epic narration and Tragedy he says, ' They differ in that Epic poetry admits but one kind...metre and is narrative in form. They differ again in the length of the action, for Tragedy endeavors as far as possible to confine itself to a single revolution... | |
 | Classical literature - 1915 - 248 pages
...as in the Margites, so long ascribed to Homer, he saw the germs of comedy. In Chapter 5 he says' : Epic poetry agrees with Tragedy in so far as it is...metre and is narrative in form. They differ, again, in length: for Tragedy endeavours, as far as possible, to confine itself to a single revolution of the... | |
 | Aristotle - Ethics - 1943 - 500 pages
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Epic poetry agrees with Tragedy in so far as it is an imitation in verse of characters of a higher type. They differ, in that Epic poetry admits but one kind of metre, and is narrative in form. They differ, again, in... 
