{"id":511,"date":"2011-06-02T11:24:02","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T15:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/?p=511"},"modified":"2014-07-17T15:17:30","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T19:17:30","slug":"aristotle%e2%80%99s-poetics-and-epic-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/2011\/06\/02\/aristotle%e2%80%99s-poetics-and-epic-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Aristotle\u2019s Poetics and Epic Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Aristotle\"<\/a>

Aristotle<\/p><\/div>\n

Aristotle\u2019s Poetics<\/em> and Epic Poetry<\/p>\n

As of May 27, 2011, I\u2019ve revised each book of The Parliament of Poets<\/em> through Book VII, since finishing the full rough draft of the entire epic in early February. Past the half way mark of revision feels very good and inspires me to want to push on through the rest of it during the next several weeks, perhaps before the end of the summer, a readable draft of the entire book.<\/p>\n

It was as a young poet, holed up in some rental room or house, choosing to live in poverty in order to have the time to study and write, in Detroit or in the country,\u00a0none of my family or friends understanding what I was doing,\u00a0that I first read Aristotle\u2019s Poetics, some thirty-five years ago. I reread it many times, or parts of it, going back to it through the years. It is the touchstone of the literary art….<\/p>\n

Now available in<\/p>\n

The Myth of the Enlightenment: Essays<\/em>
\nForthcoming, September, 2014.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.earthrisepress.net\/myth_of_the_enlightenment.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Frederick Glaysher<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was as a young poet, holed up in some rental room or house, choosing to live in poverty in order to have the time to study and reflect, in Detroit or in the country, none of my family or friends understanding what I was doing, that I first read Aristotle\u2019s Poetics, some thirty-five years ago. I reread it many times, or parts of it, going back to it through the years. It is the touchstone of the literary art. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185],"tags":[223,228,804,29,186,30,227,224,225],"class_list":["post-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-epic","tag-aristotle","tag-ars-poetica","tag-epic","tag-epic-poetry","tag-frederick-glaysher","tag-homer","tag-horace","tag-poetics","tag-sophocles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}