From the publisher’s description:
This book is a guide to the poetics of the two Greek fountainheads of Western literary theory. Part I traces the development of Plato’s great themes of inspiration and imitation but makes no attempt to reduce his disparate statements to a system. Part II demonstrates that Aristotle’s Poetics embodies a powerful theory of literature that answers Plato’s objections to poetry as an emotionally powerful, and therefore dangerous, communication of false opinion.
Else, Gerald F. (NHC Fellow, 1978–79). Plato and Aristotle on Poetry. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1986. ISBN 0807817082.