BIBLIOGRAPHY
The newest interpretation of the idea of imitation in
Greek and especially in Aristotelian thought has been
developed by R. Ingarden in his paper on Aristotelian
Poetics (Proceedings of the Polish Academy of Learning,
1945) and in four books: H. Koller, Mimesis in der Antike
(Bern, 1954); G. F. Else, Aristotle's Poetics: The Argument
(Cambridge, Mass., 1957); G. Sörbom, Mimesis and Art
(Uppsala, 1966); and W. Tatarkiewicz, The History of Aes-
thetics, 3 vols., (Polish ed., Wroclaw, 1960-68; English ed.,
The Hague, 1970). The three volumes of the present writer
follow the development of the idea of imitation from antiq-
uity until 1700. B. Weinberg, A History of Literary Criticism
in the Italian Renaissance (Chicago, 1961) makes available
the variety of opinions of the seventeenth century on imita-
tion. The earlier book of B. Weinberg, French Realism: a
Critical Reaction (New York and London, 1937) discusses
the point of view of the nineteenth century.
W. TATARKIEWICZ
[See also Baroque;
Classification of the Arts; Form; Iconog-
raphy; Naturalism in Art;
Religion, Ritual in; Ut pictura
poesis.]
