Brandeis University
Spring semester, 2003
ENG 171A: History of Literary Criticism
Miles Rind
January 21, 2003

      Reading: Aristotle, Poetics, chs. I–XIV (CT, 50–57 or PDF file on course web site).

      Question: Aristotle says in chapter IX of the Poetics that poetry is “a more philosophical and a higher thing than history.” What does he mean by this claim, and on what grounds does he make it?