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Footnote 1: De Arte Poetica,. II. 38-40.

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Footnote 2: Poetics, iii. 4.

'The surprising is necessary in tragedy; but the Epic Poem goes farther, and admits even the improbable and incredible, from which the highest degree of the surprising results, because there the action is not seen.'

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