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Evodio Escalante
This paper brings forward the convenience of considering, under a new light, Poetics, the book in which Aristotle exposed his perceptive and his theoretical literary insights in order to show that the so called “lyric poetry” does not have a proper place within the thoughts of the Greek philosopher. His rigorous theory of mimesis, focused, as everybody knows, on the epics and the tragic narratives, leaves out of play as scarcely fair or frankly below the levels of artistic achievement any sort of personal intervention in the work of art. Proceeding in this way, lyric poetry, based mostly on personal assertions, stays necessarily out of sight, or better it would be said, it is carried out away, and condemned to live in the margins of the Aristotelian text. Furthermore, this paper urges the convenience of returning back to Poetics without the prejudices and the hermeneutical burdens with which successive historic interpretations and academic tradition had covered up Aristotle’s text.
