Richard Janko's acclaimed translation of Aristotle's Poetics is
accompanied by the most comprehensive commentary available in
English that does not presume knowledge of the original Greek. Two
other unique features are Janko's translations with notes of both
the Tractatus Coislinianus, which is argued to be a summary of the
lost second book of the Poetics, and fragments of Aristotle's
dialogue On Poets, including recently discovered texts about
catharsis, which appear in English for the first time.