Note 23 — Chapter VI · THE POETIC OF ARISTOTLE[1]
Reading edition
The distinction has lately been pointed by Mr. Hardy’s Dynasts. This, whatever else may be thought of it, is not “complete as to size,” but indeterminate. Doubtless that is why it is styled an “epic-drama.” Certainly, for all its “enhanced utterance” and occasionally striking dialogue, it is not, by any definition, a drama.