 | Joel Elias Spingarn - 1899 - 354 pages
...happened, but what may happen, — what is possible according to the law of probability or necessity. The poet and the historian differ not by writing in verse...happen. Poetry, therefore, is a more philosophical and a higher thing than history ; for poetry tends to express the universal, history the particular. The... | |
 | Joel Elias Spingarn - 1899 - 350 pages
...happened, but what may happen, — what is possible according to the law of probability or necessity. The poet and the historian differ not by writing in verse...other what may happen. Poetry, therefore, is a more philosophi,' cal and a higher thing than history ; for poetry tends to express the universal, history... | |
 | Joel Elias Spingarn - 1899 - 358 pages
...to the law of probability or necessity. The poet and the historian differ not by writing ih~verie~or in prose. The work of Herodotus might be put into...happen. Poetry, therefore, is a more philosophical and a higher thing than history ; for poetry tends to express the universal, history the particular. The... | |
 | 1900 - 452 pages
...happened but what may happen — what is possible according to the law of possibility or necessity. The poet and the historian differ not by writing in verse...Herodotus might be put into verse, and it would still be history. SHAKESPEARE'S HISTORICAL PLAYS. 13 The distinguishing mark of poetry is that it has a higher... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1901 - 474 pages
...happened, but what may happen, what is possible according to the law of probability or necessity. The poet and the historian differ not by writing in verse...verse, and it would still be a species of history. Poetry, therefore, is a more philosophical and a higher thing than history ; for poetry tends to express... | |
 | Aristotle - 1907 - 148 pages
...what may happen, — what is possible according to the law of probability or necessity. The 2 1*61 b poet and the historian differ not by writing in verse...happen. Poetry, therefore, is a more philosophical and s a higher thing thanj history : for poetry tends to express the universal, ^histp_rj[_thejp_aj5icular.... | |
 | Joel Elias Spingarn - 1908 - 376 pages
...to Petronius, Satyr. 118, though implied by the converse statement in Aristotle, Poet. ix. 2, that' the work of Herodotus might be put into verse and it would still be a species of history ', was often repeated by Renaissance critics: eg Ronsard, CEuvres, ed. Blanchemain, vii. 322, Harington's... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - 1912 - 368 pages
...is epic no longer possible? " The poet and the historian differ," says Aristotle in the Poetics, " not by writing in verse or in prose. The work of Herodotus...happen. Poetry, therefore, is a more philosophical and a higher thing than history, for poetry tends to express the universal, history the particular." There... | |
 | Aristotle, Lane Cooper - 1913 - 144 pages
...metrical, and the other in nonmetrical, language. For example, you might turn the work of Herodotus into verse, and it would still be a species of history, with metre no less than without it. The essential distinction lies in this, that the Historian relates, what has happened, and the Poet represents... | |
 | Oliver Elton - 1914 - 456 pages
...we might almost reverse the criterion by which he distinguishes between poetry and history.1 ' The poet and the historian differ not by writing in verse or in prose ' ; but because ' it is not the function of the poet to relate what has happened, but what may happen... | |
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The work of Herodotus might be put into verse, and it would still be a species of history, with metre no less than without it. The true difference is that one relates what has happened, the other -what may happen. Poetry, therefore, is a more philosophical... 
