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Title: The Preface to Aristotle's Art of Poetry

Author: Andre Dacier

Editor: Samuel Holt Monk

Release Date: July 30, 2009 [EBook #29547]

Language: English

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A. DACIER
THE PREFACE TO ARISTOTLE'S
ART OF POETRY
(1705)

Publication Number 76

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
University of California
Los Angeles
1959

GENERAL EDITORS
Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_
Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_
Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_
Lawrence Clark Powell, _Clark Memorial Library_

ASSISTANT EDITOR
W. Earl Britton, _University of Michigan_

ADVISORY EDITORS
Emmett L. Avery, _State College of Washington_
Benjamin Boyce, _Duke University_
Louis Bredvold, _University of Michigan_
John Butt, _King's College, University of Durham_
James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_
Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_
Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_
Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_
Ernest C. Mossner, _University of Texas_
James Sutherland, _University College, London_
H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY
Edna C. Davis, _Clark Memorial Library_

INTRODUCTION

Andre Dacier's _Poetique d'Aristote Traduite en Francois avec des
Remarques_ was published in Paris in 1692. His translation of Horace
with critical remarks (1681-1689) had helped to establish his reputation
in both France and England. Dryden, for example, borrowed from it
extensively in his _Discourse Concerning the Original and Progress of
Satire_ (1693). No doubt this earlier work assured a ready reception and
a quick response to the commentary on Aristotle: how ready and how quick
is indicated by the fact that within a year of its publication