Introduction to literary criticism
Aristotle On Imitation Sabbir Ahamed Shovon H-III-32113 Aristotle, The great Grecian, was a versatile genius. He was a world famous philosopher, psychologist, logician, moralist, political thinker and the founder of literary criticism . He believes that all forms of literature were imitation of real things which he presented in his epoch-making seminal work “ Poetics’’ . Aristotle did not invent the terms ‘Imitation’. He Borrowed From his master Plato who was the first to use the word in ‘The Republic’. But Aristotle breaths into it a new and definite meaning, so that poetic imitation is no longer considered mere mimicry, but is...
