Writing in 335 BCE ( long after the Golden Age of 5th-century Athenian tragedy ), Aristotle provides the earliest-surviving explanation for the origin of the dramatic art-form in his Poetics, in which he argues that tragedy developed from the improvisations of the leader of choral dithyrambs ( hymns sung and danced in praise of Dionysos, the god of wine and fertility ):

Meanwhile tragedy, as developed by Athenian dramatists of the calibre of Aeschylus and Sophocles, had begun to emerge as the leading poetic genre, borrowing the literary dialect, the metres and poetic devices of lyric poetry in general and the dithyramb in particular ( Aristotle Poetics IV 1449a ).

Classicism in the theatre was developed by 17th century French playwrights from what they judged to be the rules of Greek classical theatre, including the " Classical unities " of time, place and action, found in the Poetics of Aristotle.

" Psychological reversals are common and sometimes happen so suddenly that inconsistency in characterization is an issue for many critics, such as Aristotle, who cited Iphigenia in Aulis as an example ( Poetics 1454a32 ).

The classical unities, Aristotelian unities or three unities are rules for drama derived from a passage in Aristotle's Poetics.

Aristotle, Plato's student, wrote dozens of works on many scientific disciplines, but his greatest contribution to literature was likely his Poetics, which lays out his understanding of drama, and thereby establishes the first criteria for literary criticism.

In his Poetics, Aristotle considered plot ( mythos ) the most important element of drama — more important than character, for example.

Aristotle, Plato's student, wrote dozens of works on many scientific disciplines, but his greatest contribution to literature was likely his Poetics, which lays out his understanding of drama, and thereby establishes the first criteria for literary criticism.

Philosophy entered literature in the dialogues of Plato, while his pupil Aristotle, in his work the Poetics, formulated the first set criteria for literary criticism.

The dramatic revelation of secrets from the backstory, as a useful technique for developing a story, was recognized as far back as Aristotle, in Poetics.

The Greek philosopher Aristotle in his Poetics for the first time named story genres by categorizing dramas according to the value-charge of their endings and the design of their stories.

* Ben-Porot, Ziva ( 1976 ) The Poetics of Literary Allusion, p. 108, in PTL: A Journal for descriptive poetics and theory of literature 1

* Classical unities, rules for drama derived from a passage in Aristotle's Poetics

In his Poetics, the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle argues that kinds of poetry ( the term includes drama, flute music, and lyre music for Aristotle ) may be differentiated in three ways: according to their medium, according to their objects, and according to their mode or manner ( section I ); " For the medium being the same, and the objects the same, the poet may imitate by narration — in which case he can either take another personality as Homer does, or speak in his own person, unchanged — or he may present all his characters as living and moving before us " ( section III ).

In his Poetics, the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle argues that kinds of " poetry " ( the term includes drama, flute music, and lyre music for Aristotle ) may be differentiated in three ways: according to their medium, according to their objects, and according to their mode or " manner " ( section I ); " For the medium being the same, and the objects the same, the poet may imitate by narration — in which case he can either take another personality as Homer does, or speak in his own person, unchanged — or he may present all his characters as living and moving before us " ( section III ).

For definitions of diegesis, one should consult Aristotle's Poetics ; Gerard Genette's Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method ( Cornell University Press, 1980 ); or ( for a readable introduction ) H. Porter Abbott's The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative ( Cambridge University Press 2002 ).

The foundation has given several naming donations to the university: the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics, the Cohen-Porter Family Swimming Pool, the Shirley and Leslie Porter School of Cultural Studies, the Cohen-Porter United Kingdom Building of Life Sciences, the Porter Super Centre for Environmental and Ecological Research.

* The Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics

The Syriac language source used for the Arabic translations departed widely in vocabulary from the original Poetics and it initiated a misinterpretation of Aristotelian thought that continued through the Middle Ages.

Noted faculty poets include George Starbuck ( 1983 Lenore Marshall Prize ), Charles Olson, Robert Creeley ( Bollingen Prize 1999 ), John Logan, ( Lenore Marshall Prize 1982 ), Irving Feldman ( MacArthur Foundation Fellow 1992 ), Carl Dennis ( 2000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize ; 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry ), Robert Hass ( Poet Laureate of the United States 1995-97, 2007 National Book Award, 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry ), Charles Bernstein ( co-founder of the University's notable Poetics Program ), Steve McCaffery, and Susan Howe ( Bollingen Prize 2011 ).

Both Aristotle ( in, for example, his Poetics ) and Horace ( in his Ars Poetica ) discussed the importance of appropriate style in epic, tragedy, comedy, etc.

* Unity of place, one of the three classical unities for drama derived from Aristotle's Poetics

There is no voice of authority in the story ( see Mikhail Bakhtin's Problems of Dostoyevsky's Poetics for more on the relationship between Dostoyevsky and his characters ).

Shakespeare's sonnets have been described as a " Poetics for Infatuation "; as being dominated by one theme, and ' that theme is infatuation, its initiation, cultivation, and history, together with its peaks of triumph and devastation ' - a lengthy exploration of the condition of being ' subject to the appropriate disorders that belong to our infatuation ... the condition of infatuation '.

" Jakobson's theory of communicative functions was first published in " Closing Statements: Linguistics and Poetics " ( in Thomas A. Sebeok, Style In Language, Cambridge Massachusetts, MIT Press, 1960, pp. 350 – 377 ).

In the 4th Century BC, Aristotle wrote his Poetics, the first play-writing manual.

The first person known to have criticized the device was Aristotle in his Poetics, where he argued that the resolution of a plot must arise internally, following from previous action of the play.

Two years earlier he had published the first study of Margaret Atwood's feminism: Margaret Atwood: A Feminist Poetics.

Published as Linguistics and Poetics in 1960, Jakobson's lecture is often credited with being the first coherent formulation of stylistics, and his argument was that the study of poetic language should be a sub-branch of linguistics.

Aristotle's Poetics ( Greek:, c. 335 BCE ) is the earliest-surviving work of dramatic theory and the first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory.

The Poetics — both the extant first book and the lost second book — figure prominently in Umberto Eco's novel The Name of the Rose.

As already mentioned, the first critical study of the tragedy is contained in the Poetics of Aristotle.

Ginsberg and Waldman, who roomed together that first summer, came up with the name for the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics.

When I Was Cool: My Life at the Jack Kerouac School is Sam Kashner's autobiographical account of his experience as the first student at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, which was founded by Allen Ginsberg in honor of his late friend, Jack Kerouac.

Structuralist Poetics was one of the first introductions to the French structuralist movement available in English.

He had become a teacher, first in prisons like Sing Sing, at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, where he taught regularly, and continuing on to work with at-risk students at Upward Bound High School in Hartwick, New York.

Among Holman ’ s first teaching jobs was a stint in July of 1991 at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, which had been founded at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado by Chogyam Trungpa, Allen Ginsberg, and Anne Waldman in 1974.

A complete version of Aristotle's Poetics appeared later ( first in 1570 in an Italian version ), but his ideas had circulated ( in an extremely truncated form ) as early as the 13th century in Hermann the German's Latin translation of Averroes ' Arabic gloss, and other translations of the Poetics had appeared in the first half of the 16th century ; also of importance were the commentaries on Aristotle's poetics by Julius Caesar Scaliger which appeared in the 1560s.

Aristotle remarks in his Poetics that Homer was unique among the poets of his time, focusing on a single unified theme or action in the epic cycle.

So Aristotle suggested only one unity — that of action — but the prevalent interpretation of his Poetics during the Middle Ages already inclined toward interpreting his comment on time as another " unity ".

The Classical unities of time, action and place were the main principles of French neo-classical drama during part of the 17th century. They were introduced by Jean Mairet after a misreading of Aristotle's Poetics, and the critic Castelvetro insisted that playwrights and directors adhere to the unities.

In the Poetics Aristotle had merely recommended that action should consist only of the main plot without any subplots, and that the time represented by action should not stretch beyond the length of one day.

Poetics is considered to have been less influential in its time compared with what is generally understood to be its more famous contemporary, Rhetoric.

He also restricted his tragedies by the classical unities, derived by the classicists from Aristotle's Poetics: the unities of place, time, and action ( one scene location, 24 hours, and consistent actions respectively ).

He also introduced to French drama the three classical unities of time, action and place, after a misreading of Aristotle's Poetics.