Aristotle Poetics 26.16

Theodore Alois Buckley (Translator)

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as to themselves, their species, and their parts, their number, and their difference, what the causes are of their being good or bad, and also concerning the objections which may be made to them, and the solutions of the objections.

Poetics. Aristotle. Theodore Alois Buckley (Translator). London. 1857.

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The Poetic of Aristotle (Theodore Alois Buckley) (OCR draft) (English) (Theodore Alois Buckley's English translation, first published in 1850 and represented from the Henry G. Bohn 1857 printing; corrected against a second OCR and aligned to the Kassel reference passage sequence.)

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Translations (3)
Poetics (Thomas Twining, 1789) (OCR draft) Experimental (Thomas Twining's English translation of Aristotle's Poetics, published in 1789 and aligned to the Kassel reference passage sequence.) — 26.16 focus
AND THUS MUCH concerning TRAGIC and EPIC Poetry in general, and their several species-the number and the differences of their parts-the causes of their beauties and their defects-the censures of critics, and the principles on which they are to be answered.
The Poetic of Aristotle (Henry James Pye, revised 1792) (OCR draft) Experimental (Henry James Pye's revised 1792 English translation, corrected against the 1788 first edition, aligned to the Kassel reference edition, and supplied with a selective apparatus of substantive 1788 readings.) — 26.16 focus
And here I shall conclude what I had to say concerning tragedy, and epic poetry, as to themselves, the number and difference of their species, the causes of their merits and defects, the objections that may be made to them, and the manner in which those objections may be answered.
La poëtique d'Aristote (André Dacier, 1692) (OCR draft) Experimental (André Dacier's French translation of Aristotle's Poetics, published in 1692.) — 26.16 focus
Ce que nous venons de dire ſuffit pour expliquer ce que c'eſt que la Tragedie & l'Epopée, leur forme leurs parties avec leur nombre & leurs differences; pour faire connoître les vices & les vertus de ces deux Poëmes, & ce qui les cauſe; & pour donner une connoiſſance exacte de toutes les objections qu'on fait aux Poëtes, & des moyens dont on doit ſe ſervir pour les réfuter.

Commentary

Commentary on the Poetics (Ingram Bywater, 1909) (OCR draft) (Ingram Bywater's English commentary on Aristotle's Poetics.) focus

16. mvp-aristotle-comment-1118

περὶ μὲν οὖν κτἑ. This list of points in the preceding theory of Tragedy and epic poetry is preparatory to a discussion on another matter, no doubt the theory of Comedy (see 6, 1449 b 22 ). Summaries of the same type are constantly introduced by Aristotle 360 COMMENTARY 1462b16 as connecting links between one discussion and another; see more especially De gen. et corr. 2. 1, 328 b26 ; Meteor. 1. 14, 353a25 ; De mem. 2, 453b8 ; H. A. 3. 1, 509 a26 ; Eth. N. 7. 15, 1154 b 32 ; Pol. 6. 1, 1316b31 ; Rhet. 2. 1, 1377b15 . To judge from these parallels, the next paragraph must have opened with περὶ δὲ κωμῳδίας λοιπὸν εἰπεῖν or some equivalent formula.

Remarques sur la poëtique d'Aristote (André Dacier, 1692) (OCR draft) (André Dacier's French commentary on Aristotle's Poetics.) focus

32. mvp-aristotle-comment-683

26.16 Ce que nous venons de dire ſuffit pour expliquer ce que c'eſt que la Tragedie & l'Epopée, &c.] 1

Commentarius in Aristotelis Poeticam (Franciscus Ritter, 1839) (OCR draft) (Ritter's Latin commentary, extracted from the 1839 volume, divided by Ritter's chapters and sections, and linked to the corresponding Perseus reference subsections.) focus

8. mvp-aristotle-comment-211

Ritter, cap. 26 § 8

quae iam sequuntur partim ex operis initio sumpta partim ab ipso interpolatore concinnata sunt.