poetics
literary criticism treating of the nature and laws of poetry.
the study of prosody.
a treatise on poetry.
(initial capital letter, italics) a treatise or collection of notes on aesthetics (4th century b.c.) by Aristotle.
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Full disclosure: I briefly worked for Torres at his current magazine, Wax poetics.
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Aristotle wrote two treatises on literary criticism: the Rhetoric and the poetics.
Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance | Donald Lemen Clark
Consequently in the Rhetoric he refers to the poetics for a fuller discussion of metaphor.
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Marjorie Dean College Freshman | Pauline LesterOne of this family was a Colchester rector, and a translator of Aristotles poetics.
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British Dictionary definitions for poetics
/ (pəʊˈɛtɪks) /
the principles and forms of poetry or the study of these, esp as a form of literary criticism
a treatise on poetry
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