The Poetics of Aristotle, Reading 1
Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep
Sharon Handy
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🗓️ 7 January 2019
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Tonight we sink into slumber with the fundamental structures of dramatic storytelling, as defined in mind-numbing detail by Aristotle in his "Poetics". It's the perfect plot for sleep.
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening and welcome to boring books for bedtime. I hope tonight's installment provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you get some sleep for once. |
| 0:15.0 | So lie back, adjust your volume. |
| 0:20.0 | Take a nice, deep breath. and off we go. |
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| 1:20.3 | And now for tonight's book. We're reading The Poetics of Aristotle, translated with a critical |
| 1:28.0 | text by S.H. Butcher, Doctor of Literature, L.L.D. Professor of Greek in the University of Edinburgh, formerly fellow |
| 1:39.0 | of Trinity College, Cambridge and of University College, Oxford, published by Macmillan and Co, London and New York, |
| 1:48.7 | 1895. |
| 1:51.7 | Let's begin. |
| 1:54.3 | Aristotle's Poetics. |
| 1:57.0 | Number 1. |
| 1:59.2 | I propose to treat of poetry in itself and of its various kinds, noting the essential quality of each, |
| 2:07.5 | to inquire into the structure of the plot as requisite to a good poem, into the number and nature of parts of which a poem is composed, and similarly |
| 2:18.5 | into whatever else falls within the same inquiry. Following then the Order of Nature, let us begin with the principles |
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