The Complete Aristotle (eng.)

other respects it is superior, this fault, we say, is not
inherent in it.
    And superior it is, because it has an the epic elements—it may
even use the epic meter—with the music and spectacular effects as
important accessories; and these produce the most vivid of
pleasures. Further, it has vividness of impression in reading as
well as in representation. Moreover, the art attains its end within
narrower limits for the concentrated effect is more pleasurable
than one which is spread over a long time and so diluted. What, for
example, would be the effect of the Oedipus of Sophocles, if it
were cast into a form as long as the Iliad? Once more, the Epic
imitation has less unity; as is shown by this, that any Epic poem
will furnish subjects for several tragedies. Thus if the story
adopted by the poet has a strict unity, it must either be concisely
told and appear truncated; or, if it conforms to the Epic canon of
length, it must seem weak and watery. [Such length implies some
loss of unity,] if, I mean, the poem is constructed out of several
actions, like the Iliad and the Odyssey, which have many such
parts, each with a certain magnitude of its own. Yet these poems
are as perfect as possible in structure; each is, in the highest
degree attainable, an imitation of a single action.
    If, then, tragedy is superior to epic poetry in all these
respects, and, moreover, fulfills its specific function better as
an art—for each art ought to produce, not any chance pleasure, but
the pleasure proper to it, as already stated—it plainly follows
that tragedy is the higher art, as attaining its end more
perfectly.
    Thus much may suffice concerning Tragic and Epic poetry in
general; their several kinds and parts, with the number of each and
their differences; the causes that make a poem good or bad; the
objections of the critics and the answers to these objections…
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