De arte poetica: (Vahlen's text)Parker and Company, 1885 - 95 pàgines |
Passatges populars
Pàgina 61 - The perfection of style is to be clear without being mean. The clearest style is that which uses only current or proper words; at the same time it is mean— witness the poetry of Cleophon and of Sthenelus.
Pàgina 83 - Now, in the first place, this censure attaches not to the poetic but to the histrionic art ; for gesticulation may be equally overdone in epic recitation, as by Sosistratus, or in lyrical competition, as by Mnasitheus the Opuntian. Next, all action is not to be condemned — any more than all dancing — but only that of bad performers.
Pàgina 57 - Componendo, by composition ; when there are four proportionals, and it is inferred that the first together with the second, is to the second, as the third together with the fourth, is to the fourth.
Pàgina 73 - Since the poet represents life, as a painter does or any other maker of likenesses, he must always represent one of three things — either things as they were or are ; or things as they are said and seem to be ; or things as they should be.
Pàgina 21 - As then in other mimetic arts one representation is the representation of one object, so the plot (being a representation of action) must be the representation of one complete action, and the parts of the action be so arranged that if any be transposed or removed the whole will be broken up and disturbed ; for what proves nothing by its insertion or omission is no part of the whole.
Pàgina 23 - ... The crawling horror of The Speckled Band would, we infer, have pleased him no less than The Corpse in the Car, The Corpse in Cold Storage or The Body in the Silo. Yet he was no thriller fan. "Of simple plots and actions," he rightly observes, "the episodic are the worst. I call a plot episodic when there is neither probability nor necessity in the sequence of the episodes.
Pàgina 29 - XII [The parts of Tragedy which must be treated as elements of the whole have been already mentioned. We now come to the quantitative parts — the separate parts into which Tragedy is divided — namely, Prologue, Episode, Exode, Choric song; this last being divided into Parode and Stasimon.
Pàgina 47 - Unravelling is that which extends from the beginning of the change to the end. Thus, in the Lynceus of Theodectes, the Complication consists of the incidents presupposed in the drama, the seizure of the child, and then again. . . . The Unravelling extends from the accusation of murder to the end. There are four kinds of Tragedy, the Complex, depending entirely on Reversal of the Situation...
Pàgina 53 - These are distinguished according to the form assumed by the mouth and the place where they are produced; according as they are aspirated or smooth, long or short; as they are acute, grave, or of an intermediate tone; which inquiry belongs in detail to the writers on metre.
Pàgina 75 - ... presentation of natural objects as the artist fain would see them, as he thinks they strive to be. It is the attempt to imitate things as the mind interprets them. I may pause to remark that the distinction implied in these definitions is as old as Aristotle. In the Poetics we read : " Sophocles used to say that he depicted men as they ought to be, Euripides as they are.