The Poetics - Couverture souple

Aristotle (384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and scientist. At seventeen or eighteen, he joined Plato's Academy in Athens and remained there until the age of thirty-seven (347 BC). His writings cover many subjects – including physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, poetry, theatre, music, rhetoric, linguistics, politics and government – and constitute the first comprehensive system of Western philosophy.

Dramatic and literary theory from Aristotle (c. 335 BCE). “The rules are all in a sixty-four-page pamphlet by Aristotle called Poetics. It was written almost three thousand years ago, but I promise you, if something is wrong with what you're writing, you’ve probably broken one of Aristotle’s rules.” —Aaron Sorkin “The Meaning of Life” Esquire January 2011