The genres all share the function of mimesis, or imitation of life, but differ in three ways that Aristotle describes: In this text Aristotle offers an account of ποιητική, which refers to poetry and more literally "the poetic art," deriving from the term for "poet author maker," ποιητής.Īristotle divides the art of poetry into verse drama ( comedy, tragedy, and the satyr play), lyric poetry, and epic. 335 BC ) is the earliest surviving work of Greek dramatic theory and the first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory. For other uses, see Poetics (disambiguation).Īristotle's Poetics ( Greek: Περὶ ποιητικῆς Peri poietikês Latin: De Poetica c.
For the theory of literary forms and discourse, see Poetics.
This article is about the treatise by Aristotle.
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