ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -His most important treatises include Physics, Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, On the Soul and Poetics. Aristotle studied and made significant contributions to “logic, metaphysics, mathematics, physics, biology, botany, ethics, politics, agriculture, medicine, dance, and theatre."

Detailed explanation-2: -Aristotle’s Poetics (Greek: Peri poietikês; Latin: De Poetica; c. 335 BC) is the earliest surviving work of Greek dramatic theory and first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Poetics of Aristotle (384-322 B.C.E.) is a much-disdained book. So unpoetic a soul as Aristotle’s has no business speaking about such a topic, much less telling poets how to go about their business.

Detailed explanation-4: -Like many important documents in the history of philosophy and literary theory, Aristotle’s Poetics, composed around 330 BCE, was most likely preserved in the form of students’ lecture notes.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Poetics was most likely a series of notes that Aristotle would have used when he lectured. In the piece he identifies various forms (tragedy, comedy, epic) and their elements.