...Being which is the highest object of all knowledge." "It is therefore evident," says Aristotle, "that it is not the function of the poet to relate what has happened, but what may happen." For poetry expresses the universal. Its subject matter is higher than history. Its creations move on...

...perceived, is not an organic part of the whole. It is, moreover, evident from what has been said, that it is not the function of the poet to relate what has • Happened, "but wliat may Tiappen.. — -/what ia possible . * A -?- ; . . , .-,„ ; jl^ J~C— — *• t' . r according...

...difference, is not an organic part of the whole. IX It is, moreover, evident from what has been said, that it is not the function of the poet to relate what...may happen, — what is possible according to the law of probability or necessity. The 2 1451 b poet and the historian differ not by writing in verse...

...makes itself supreme over things outward. ' It is not the function of the poet,' says Aristotle, ' to relate what has happened, but what may happen, — what is possible according to the law of probability or necessity. The poet and the historian differ not by writing in verse or in prose....

...chapter of the Poetics. The passage is as follows : — " It is evident from what has been said that it is not the function of the poet to relate what...may happen, — what is possible according to the law of probability or necessity. The poet and the historian differ not by writing in verse or in prose....

...written on the parchment of time and eternity. "It is not the function of the poet," says Aristotle, "to relate what has happened but what may happen — what is possible according to the law of possibility or necessity. The poet and the historian differ not by writing in verse or in prose....

...One is that in which he contrasts Poetry with History : "It is evident from what has been said that it is not the function of the poet to relate what...what may happen, what is possible according to the law of probability or necessity. The poet and the historian differ not by writing in verse or in prose....

...moreover, evident from what has been said, that it is not the function of the poet to relate what I has happened, but what may happen, — what is possible according to the law of probability or necessity. The 2 1*61 b poet and the historian differ not by writing in verse...

...the abnormal side, rather than the creative force, of poetry. Bacon, however, connects it definitely with the latter function, and frankly adopts the place...to express the universal; history, the particular.' 3 Bacon uses the term ' imagination ' to indicate the mental process which transforms the prosaic 'what...

...familiar passages in Aristotle, in the ninth, fifteenth, and twenty-fifth chapters of the Poetics. "It is not the function of the poet to relate what...may happen, — what is possible according to the law of probability or necessity. ... By the universal I mean how a person of given character will on...