Aristotle on the Art of Poetry

Issued in 1913 as An Amplified Version With Supplementary Illustrations for Students of English., the Preface of Cooper's work notes that "[t]he Poetics as it has come down to us may represent a part of Aristotle's notes for a set of lectures, or perhaps for a dialogue; though now and then it seems more like the uneven memoranda of some person who attended the lectures." The contents I. Character and Value of the Poetics; II. Epic Poetry and Tragedy, and Comedy, Considered in General as Forms of Imitative Art; III. Tragedy the Principles of Its Construction; III. Epic the Principles of Its Construction; and IV. Problems in the Principles of Their Solution.