TY - BOOK AU - Aristotle AU - Calamnius,J.W. TI - Runousoppi AV - PN PY - 2017/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Poetry -- Early works to 1800 KW - Aesthetics -- Early works to 1800 N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetics_(Aristotle) Wikipedia page about this book: https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runousoppi; Release date is 2017-05-15; Produced by Tapio Riikonen; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Runousoppi" by Aristotle is a philosophical treatise written around 335 BCE. This pioneering work examines the art of poetry, focusing primarily on dramatic forms including tragedy, comedy, and epic. Aristotle analyzes how these genres imitate life through differences in rhythm, character, and narrative presentation. The surviving text concentrates on tragedy's construction, introducing influential concepts like catharsis and exploring what makes poetry philosophically superior to history. This foundational work established principles for literary criticism that continue to shape Western understanding of dramatic art. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54728 ER -