 The true difference is that one relates what has happened, the other what may happen. Poetry, therefore, is a more philosophical and a higher thing than history: for poetry tends to express the universal, history the particular.  Century Monthly Magazine - Page 2511926Full view - About this book
 | Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.) - 1896 - 898 pages
...anything Itclong to the Self on Bradley's principles? 5. Criticise Bradley's view of Error. 6. " Poetry is a more philosophical and a higher thing than history...to express the universal, history the particular." Examine into the truth of this saving of Aristotle. 7. " Moral freedom is only of real importance for... | |
 | Samuel Henry Butcher, Aristotle - Aesthetics - 1898 - 454 pages
...what has happened, the other what may happen. Poetry, therefore, is a more philosophical and .3 ^, a higher thing than history : for poetry tends to express the universal, history the particular. By the universal 4 I mean how a person of given character will on occasion speak or act, according... | |
 | Aristotle - Aesthetics - 1898 - 144 pages
...relates what has happened, the other what may happen. Poetry, therefore, is a more philosophical and 3 a higher thing than history : for poetry tends to express the universal, history the particular. By the universal 4 I mean how a person of given character will on occasion speak or act, according... | |
 | Joel Elias Spingarn - Criticism - 1899 - 372 pages
...than without it. The true difference is that one relates what has happened, the other what may happen. Poetry, therefore, is a more philosophical and a higher...to express the universal, history the particular. The universal tells us how a person of given character will on occasion apeak or act, according to... | |
 | Edward Howard Griggs - Social sciences - 1899 - 250 pages
...understand the ideal rather than the conduct. It was such a thought that moved Aristotle when he said: "Poetry, therefore, is a more philosophical and a...to express the universal, history the particular." Many times a Greek myth, or a canto of Homer, will give one a deeper understanding of the Greek spirit... | |
 | Joel Elias Spingarn - Criticism - 1899 - 352 pages
...than without it. The true difference is that one relates what has happened, the other what may happen. Poetry, therefore, is a more philosophical and a higher...for poetry tends to express the universal, history the_particular. The universal lellg Us~tP5w~a" person of given character will on occasion speak or... | |
 | Joel Elias Spingarn - Criticism - 1899 - 350 pages
...relates what has happened, the other what may happen. Poetry, therefore, is a more philosophi,' cal and a higher thing than history ; for poetry tends to express the universal, history the particular. The universal tells us how a person of given character will on occasion speak or act, according to... | |
 | Terrot Reaveley Glover - Epic poetry, Latin - 1904 - 336 pages
...distinct. ' Poetry,' says Aristotle, ' is a more philosophical and a higher thing (iritou5cuoYepiw) than history ; for poetry tends to express the universal, history the particular. By the universal I mean how a person of given character will on occasion speak or act, according to... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1905 - 564 pages
...lives in perpetual fear lest his trick should be discovered. INTRODUCTION TO THE THIRD DISCOURSE " Poetry, therefore, is a more philosophical and a higher...to express the universal, history the particular." — Aristotle, Poetics ix. 3 (Butcher's Translation). IN the Third Discourse Reynolds endeavours to... | |
 | Hartley Burr Alexander - Aesthetics - 1906 - 268 pages
...of the universal in poetry, we are not left in doubt, — the Platonic Idea alone is meant. Poetry is a more philosophical and a higher thing than history...to express the universal, history the particular. By the universal I mean how a person of a certain type will on occasion speak or act, according to... | |
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