Excerpt from Aristotle's Treatise on Poetry, Translated: With Notes on the Translation, and on the Original; And Two Dissertations, on Poetical, and Musical, Imitation It would be doing injuf'tice to the'tranflation lately given to the public by Mr. Pye; to place it, ' in any view, however favour able, by the tide of thefe'. 'a particular and critical examination of its merits would come with little propriety from me. So much, however, I may be allowed to fay, for it is an indifputable fact, that Mr. Pye's tranflation and m1ne are frequently Very-'diff'erent and that, in many pafi'ages, if he' is 'right, 1 innit confefs myfelf to be wrong. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.