The Poetics translated by S. H. Butcher/Preface to fourth

PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION

This edition differs but little from the last, the only two changes of any importance being in the interpretation of ζῷον (ch. vii. 4-5, xxiii. 1), see Aristotle's Theory of Poetry and Fine Art, ed. 4, p. 188, and of περιπέτεια, ib. pp. 329-331. On particular points, including bibliographical matter, I have received kind assistance from Dr. J. E. Sandys. I desire also to express once more my obligations to Messrs. R. & R. Clark's Reader.

 

London, January 1907.