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परिशिष्ट revealed to them by imagining their own selves in different situations but create other · beings totally different from themselves. Aristotle-Indispensable basis for poetry is invention. He held composition of action to be the main thing. His conception includes all imaginative literature whether in verse or prose. He conceives poetry as imitation of the facts of nature. Plato-considered it to be an imitation of the dreams of man. Both A. and P. slighted the importance of versification. Both lay stress on substance rather than on form Dionysius-revolted against the above and enunciated that poetry is fundamentally a matter of style. Modern critics have made versification essential, Hegel (Aesthetik) went as far as to say that "motro is the first and only condition alsolutely domanded by poetry, even more necessary than a figurative picteresque diction." "The great law of poetic art that the more earnest or impassioned or imaginative
