12. Prickard thinks Aristotle misread in this passage. According to Prickard, Aristotle means that poetry must be in meter, but that not all meter is poetry. Aristotle's Poetics, p. 60. Most critics do not share Prickard's opinion.

13. Ibid., I, 6.

14. Ibid., IV, 2.

15. Psychology, ed. E. Wallace, III, 3, cf. also introd., p. 77, ff.

16. Poetics, I.

17. VII, 3.

18. VII, 5.

19. S.H. Butcher, Aristotle's Theory of Poetry and Fine Art, p. 123. Poetics, II, 1.

20. III, 1.

21. Ibid., IX.