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[Tsiatsos]

 logic, rhetoric, ethics, politics, physics, psychology, and almost
every department of knowledge that existed in his day, then the
uncertainties become rather a help than a discouragement. They give us
occasion to think and use our imagination. They make us, to the best of
our powers, try really to follow and criticize closely the bold gropings
of an extraordinary thinker; and it is in this process, and not in any
mere collection of dogmatic results, that we shall find the true value
and beauty of the _Poetics_. The book is of permanent value as a mere
intellectual achievement; as a store of information about Greek
literature; and as an original or first-hand statement of what we may
call the classical view of artistic criticism. It does not regard poetry
as a matter of unanalysed inspiration; it makes no concession to
personal whims or fashi
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