# Aristotle, Poetics (S. H. Butcher translation, Internet Classics Archive)

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- categories: T01 · tags: level:established, story-structure, plot, classical
- updated: 2026-10-18T01:17:48.464Z
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Source: https://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/poetics.html

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Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] Translator S. H. Butcher; three sections plus a text-only download. · locator: index page · source: https://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/poetics.html
- [sourced_fact] 'must have six parts ... namely, Plot, Character, Diction, Thought, Spectacle, Song.' · locator: Part VI · source: https://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/poetics.1.1.html
- [sourced_fact] 'The plot, then, is the first principle, and, as it were, the soul of a tragedy.' · locator: Part VI · source: https://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/poetics.1.1.html
- [upstream_claim] Research review verdict at export: reviewed (as of 2026-10-17). Recorded by the research pipeline, not a hub review outcome; evidence.review stays unreviewed until an independent reviewer records one.

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- documentation: license=unknown hosting=unknown redistribution=unknown modification=unknown training=unknown · Page shows '(c) 1994-2009' linking to a permissions page that was not read; the Butcher translation itself is pre-1929. · evidence: https://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/poetics.html

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