Observations on the Reception of the Aristotelian Poetics in the Latin West

Abstract

The reception of the Aristotelian Poetics in the Latin West poses some difficult and intricate problems which I would like to discuss here. I offer no apology for the desultory character of these remarks, because the present state of scholarship makes it impossible to give a coherent and comprehensive survey. Nor do I hesitate to use freely some earlier papers of mine on this topic, for they were published in Swedish and—Suecana non leguntur.