[Aristotle's Poetics: Introduction] [Malcolm Heath]

Aristotle Poetics: a bibliography

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Introduction

This bibliography does not pretend to provide a comprehensive record of everything that has been written on the Poetics (still less of everything relevant to the Poetics). So serious researchers will need to consult the wonderfully thorough and informative bibliography by O.J. Schrier (1998), which covers publications up to 1996. However, there is quite a lot here for the interested reader to make a start with (I confess, with shame, that I have not yet read everything listed here myself).

The bibliography is divided into two parts. The first part includes publications up to 1996, and is therefore mainly a (very limited) subset of items included by Schrier. The second part includes publications from 1996 onwards (so that there is a 1-year overlap between the two parts), together with some earlier items not listed by Schrier (these are mostly due to my less systematic criteria for inclusion, rather than any oversight on Schrier's part). Hence the second provides a supplement to Schrier - although it will not be equally thorough in its coverage.

Users should treat with some caution the way items have been distributed under different headings and sub-headings. The classification has developed in an unplanned way as the bibliography has grown over a number of years; there are doubtless many anomalies. One day I will work out a more satisfactory way of doing it; until then, it seems better to keep an ad hoc scheme than to lump everything together in one unsorted mass. In any case, issues in the Poetics are so often interconnected that any attempt to classify items is bound to be arbitrary in some degree.

Greek characters in titles have been transliterated (for simplicity in on-screen viewing); unfortunately, this makes them indistinguishable from transliterations in title, and the user should check the original format before making a citation. (In one case, I have used curly brackets to signal a Greek character: {F} = phi. )

The bibliography will be updated sporadically. The date of the most recent update can be found at the end of each Part..

Malcolm Heath

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[Aristotle's Poetics: Introduction] [Malcolm Heath]