On the Art of Reading · Character
Aristotle
The Greek whose Poetics and rhetorical principles underwrite the lectures' working assumptions about what makes a text hold together.
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First appearance: lecture i introductory
As a supporting figure in On the Art of Reading, Aristotle is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
Referenced in the context of classical education and the foundations of literary criticism.
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Aristotle hovers behind the lectures as the uncredited framework — the source of the categories Quiller-Couch reaches for when he asks what a poem is doing and whether it does it. He is invoked alongside Socrates in the…
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