Buckley's introduction to the Poetics and Rhetoric Aristotle Theodore Alois Buckley Legacy OCR correction, structural separation, TEI revision, and passage alignment Perseus Digital Library Project Perseus Digital Library Project Medford, MA 2026-09-05 urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0086.tlg034.buckley1850-intro-eng1 The source is in the public domain. The revised TEI is available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Aristotle Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric, also The Poetic of Aristotle Theodore Alois Buckley London Henry G. Bohn 1857 hvd.32044009659277 The populated legacy TEI was checked against a second OCR of the represented 1857 printing. Only strongly supported OCR repairs were applied automatically; confirmed larger corruptions were repaired explicitly. English Separated and corrected the Buckley translation from the combined legacy volume; preserved introductions separately; aligned Poetics to the Perseus reference sequence.
Buckley's introduction to the Poetics and Rhetoric

quaintness of his Analysis, at times lost sight of the precise character of the original definitions, an Appendix has been added, containing the very words of Aristotle, connected by such remarks as were necessary to preserve clearness, and furnishing such passages as should be almost learnt by heart.

The new translation of the Poetic is an attempt to unite the closeness of Taylor with the perspicuity of Twining, upon whose versions it has principally been based. A copious selection from the notes of the last named scholar has been added, together with a few necessary ones from recent sources by the present Editor, THEODORE ALOIS BUCKLEY, CHRIST CHURCH