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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...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 in Tragedy...

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

...is an imitation in verse of characters of a higher type. . . . They differ, again, in length : for Tragedy endeavors, as far as possible, to confine...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 " unity of action,"...

...is an imitation in verse of characters of a higher type. . . . They differ, again, in length : for Tragedy endeavors, as far as possible, to confine...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 " unity of action,"...

...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...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 in Tragedy...

...* i *• 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,...

...says that the action of tragedy and that of epic poetry differ in length, "for tragedy endeavors, so far as possible, to confine itself to a single revolution...; whereas the epic action has no limits of time." 1 This passage is the incidental statement of an historical fact; it is merely a tentative deduction...

...of 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...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 ; and...