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Did you know... that L. J. Potts translated the Poetics as Aristotle on the Art of Fiction, a title accused of "[narrowing] dangerously the wide gap between Aristotle and ourselves", but later called "creative genius"?
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... that L. J. Potts translated Poetics as Aristotle on the Art of Fiction, a title accused of "narrowing dangerously the wide gap between Aristotle and ourselves", but later called "creative genius"?
Sources:
"narrowing dangerously the wide gap between Aristotle and ourselves": "Aristotle on the Art of Fiction. By L. J. Potts. (Cambridge University Press, 1953. Pp. 94. Price 6s.)" in Philosophy, Vol. 29, Issue 111, October 1954, pp. 380-381
"creative genius": W. S. Howell, "Poetics, rhetoric, and logic in Renaissance criticism" in Robert Bolgar, ed., Classical Influences on European Culture, A.D. 1500-1700 (Cambridge University Press, 1976), pp. 159–160