Aristotle's "Poetics," Horace's "Poetics," and Plato's "On Poetics," which have become the cornerstones of Western classical poetry and literary criticism, are included together.
Aristotle's "Poetics", which had a great influence on later generations as the first work on literary criticism written by a scientist, is highly regarded for systematically establishing the essence of poetry and the principles of poetic composition; unlike Aristotle's "Poetics", which philosophically clarified the essence of poetry through analysis of empirical facts, the "Poetics" of the Roman poet Horace, which emphasized the technical aspects of composition methods for young poets based on his own experience and Latin literature, guides readers into the fundamental world of poetics.