TRAGEDY, as it was anciently composed, hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other poems ; therefore said by Aristotle to be of power, by raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and such like passions,... Free Thoughts Upon Methodists, Actors, and the Influence of the Stage: With ... - Página 56por Robert Mansel - 1814 - 206 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Dieter Wunderlich - 1979 - 380 páginas
...and most profitable of all other Poems : therefore said by Aristotle to be of power of raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and...reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirr'd up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated. Nor is Nature wanting in her own efforts... | |
| David Daiches - 1979 - 304 páginas
...most profitable of all other poems." Aristotle's theory that tragedy has "the power by raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and such like passions" is cited, and every effort is made to prove that tragedy is of the highest seriousness. He explains... | |
| William Kerrigan - 1983 - 372 páginas
...and most profitable of all other Poems: therefore said by Aristotle to be of power by raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and...reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirr'd up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated." The catharsis of Oedipus Rex, Aristotle's... | |
| John Milton - 1988 - 244 páginas
...and most profitable of all other Poems: therefore said by Aristotle to be of power by raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and...reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirr'd up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated. Nor is Nature wanting in her own effects... | |
| George Alexander Kennedy, Glyn P. Norton - 1989 - 790 páginas
...ed. JT Boulton, 2nd edn (Oxford: Blackwell, 1987), p. 59. -" Hall, Peri hupsous, p. 11; Longinus 7.2. fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and such...just measure with a kind of delight, stirred up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated'. Milton goes on to offer a homeopathic definition of... | |
| Ronald L. Dotterer - 1989 - 252 páginas
...therefore said by Aristotle to be of power by raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of these and such like passions, that is to temper and reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirr'd up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated. Nor is Nature wanting in her own effects... | |
| John Milton - 1926 - 360 páginas
...of all other Poems: there' fore said by Ariflodt to be of power by raising pity and fear, or tenor, to purge the mind of those and such like passions, that is to temper* and reduce them to juft measure with a kind of delight, Itirr'd up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated.... | |
| Marvin A. Carlson - 1993 - 564 páginas
...thoughts expressed in the text. Indeed, his citation of Aristotle on the end of drama — "raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and...reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirr'd up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated"17 — comes close to rejecting the traditional... | |
| C. A. Meier - 1995 - 240 páginas
...deutlich an diesen Aspekt, wenn er schreibt: Tragedy is said by Aristotle to be of power, by raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and...just measure with a kind of delight, stirred up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated. Nor is Nature wanting in her own effects to make good... | |
| René Girard - 1988 - 364 páginas
...and most profitable of all other Poems: therefore said by Aristotle to be of power by raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and...reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirr'd up by reading or generally involving children or young girls) suffice to remind us of the hard... | |
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