 | Samuel Henry Butcher - 1895 - 418 pagina’s
...poet and the historian differ not by writing in verse or in prose. The work of Herodotus might be put into verse, and it would still be a species of history, with metre no less than without it. The true difference is that one relates what has happened, the other what may happen.' l ffhe first distinguishing... | |
 | Aristotle - 1898 - 144 pagina’s
...poet and the historian differ not by writing in verse or in prose. The work of Herodotus might be put into verse, and it would still be a species of history, with metre no less than without it. The true difference is that one relates what has happened, the other what may happen. Poetry, therefore,... | |
 | Samuel Henry Butcher, Aristotle - 1898 - 454 pagina’s
...poet and the historian differ not by writing in verse or in prose. The work of Herodotus might be put into verse, and it would still be a species of history, with metre no less than without it. I The true difference is ^^s that one relates what has happened, the other what may happen. Poetry,... | |
 | Joel Elias Spingarn - 1899 - 372 pagina’s
...poet and the historian differ not by writing in verse or in prose. The work of Herodotus might be put into verse, and it would still be a species of history, with metre no less than without it. The true difference is that one relates what has happened, the other what may happen. Poetry, therefore,... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - 1912 - 368 pagina’s
...Aristotle in the Poetics, " not by writing in verse or in prose. The work of Herodotus might be put into verse, and it would still be a species of history, with metre no less than without it. The true difference is that one relates what has happened, the other what may happen. Poetry, therefore,... | |
 | Oliver Elton - 1914 - 456 pagina’s
...passage of the Poetics, who is the other member of the comparison. ' The work of Herodotus might be put into verse, and it would still be a species of history, with metre, no less than without it.' Would it, by the way, be at all equally true that the work of Homer ' might be put into prose, and... | |
 | Richard Green Moulton - 1915 - 536 pagina’s
...poet and the historian differ not by writing in verse or prose. The work of Herodotus might be put into verse, and it would still be a species of history, with meter no less than without it. The true difference is that one relates what has happened, the other... | |
 | Henry G. Hartman - 1919 - 260 pagina’s
...be confounded with metrics; for, as he writes, "the work of Herodotus might be put into verse, but it would still be a species of history with metre no less than without it." He then goes on to say that poetry "is more philosophical and a higher thing than history; for poetry... | |
 | Jesse Harliaman Coursault - 1920 - 488 pagina’s
...differ not by writing in verse or in prose. The work of 1 Aristotle, Poetics, IX. Herodotus might be put into verse and it would still be a species of history, with meter no less than without it. The true difference is that one is related to what has happened, the... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1921 - 158 pagina’s
...poet and the historian differ not by writing in verse or in prose. The work of Herodotus might be put into verse, and it would still be a species of history, with metre no less than without it. The true difference is that one relates what has happened, the other what may happen. Poetry, therefore,... | |
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The poet and the historian differ not by writing in verse or in prose. The work of Herodotus might be put into verse, and it would still be a species of history, with metre no less than without it. 
