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Introduction
Several critics are of the view that Aristotle’s Poetics was primarily written as an answer
to Plato’s charge against poetry. Whether this is acceptable or not, Aristotle’s concept of
poetry certainly involves a ‘defence’ of poetry against the charge that poetry is a pack of lies, a
copy of a copy, a shadow of shadows and twice removed from reality. We see how Aristotle
takes the very concept of ‘imitation’ from Plato but modifies it to hold greater dimensions.