The Poetics translated by S. H. Butcher/Preface to fourth
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PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION
This edition differs but little from the last, the only two changes of any importance being in the interpretation of ζῷον (ch. vii. 4-5, xxiii. 1), see Aristotle's Theory of Poetry and Fine Art, ed. 4, p. 188, and of περιπέτεια, ib. pp. 329-331. On particular points, including bibliographical matter, I have received kind assistance from Dr. J. E. Sandys. I desire also to express once more my obligations to Messrs. R. & R. Clark's Reader.
London, January 1907.