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36245	Spingarn, Joel Elias	A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism			.txt	text/plain	84221	5887	70	Butcher's _Aristotle's Theory of Poetry and Fine Art_, a noble one who imitates without verse is a poet, in the best and truest poetry poetically treated become poetry, and Aristotle himself[66] says that imitation is what distinguishes the poetic art, Aristotle, by limiting Aristotle, as we know, regarded poetry as an imitation of human life, poetry he rates above tragedy, since the epic poet, more than any other, Tasso points out that if the actions of tragedy and of epic poetry were imitate nature because the great classical poets have always poetry, is based on Aristotle, Scaliger, and various Italian poet's personality; that is, poetry is merely reasoned expression, a _Poetics_ (1561) is the work, not of a French critic, but of an Italian "Tragedy, as Aristotle says in his _Poetics_, is an imitation or "Poetry," says Sidney,[461] "is an art of imitation, for so Aristotle	./cache/36245.txt	./txt/36245.txt