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...kind of metre, and i»% narrative in form. They differ, again, in length : for Tragedy endeavours, as far as possible, to confine itself to a single revolution...this limit ; whereas the Epic action has no limits of time. This, then, is a second point of difference; though at first the same freedom was admitted...

...Kai /ieXos seclus. Tyrwhitt. 31. fiJtwov : fuSpia S length of the action : for Tragedy endeavours, as far as possible, to confine itself to a single revolution...this limit ; whereas the Epic action has no limits of time. This, then, is a second point of difference ; though at first the same freedom was admitted...

...verse of characters of a higher type. . . . They differ, again, in length : for Tragedy endeavors, as far as possible, to confine itself to a single revolution...this limit; whereas the Epic action has no limits of time." 2 The first two passages quoted, emphasizing the need for what is technically known as "...

...verse of characters of a higher type. . . . They differ, again, in length : for Tragedy endeavors, as far as possible, to confine itself to a single revolution...this limit; whereas the Epic action has no limits of time." " The first two passages quoted, emphasizing the need for what is technically known as "...

...*• t* ^ * ARISTOTLE'S POETICS V. 4— VI. 4 23 length of the action : for Tragedy endeavours, as far as possible, to confine itself to a single revolution of the sgn. or but slightly to exceed this limit ; whereas the Epic_action has no limits of time. This, then,...

...so-called unity of place. Aristotle says that the action of tragedy and that of epic poetry differ in length, "for tragedy endeavors, so far as possible,...this limit ; whereas the epic action has no limits of time." l This passage is the incidental statement of an historical fact; it is merely a tentative...

...was led, therefore, to make the empirical statement (Poet/en, ch. iv.), that " tragedy endeavors, as far as possible, to confine itself to a single revolution...this limit ; whereas the epic action has no limits of time ; . . . though at first the same freedom was admitted in tragedy, as in •epic poetry." From...

...Time all Aristotle says is, when comparing Epic poetry with Tragedy, that the latter "endeavours as far as possible to confine itself to a single revolution...this limit; whereas the Epic action has no limits of time ". Thus Aristotle, far from laying down a hard-and-fast rule, only gives a piece of information...