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Περὶ ποιητικῆς (Poetics) influenced Flowers for Algernon
Added by Media Influence Map · 6 October 2026
The influence
Περὶ ποιητικῆς Poetics
Nonfiction · -335
The work it shaped
Flowers for Algernon
Book · 1966
The evidence
Daniel Keyes has said he wrote Flowers for Algernon to test Aristotle's dictum in the Poetics that a tragic hero must fall from a height: here the height is intelligence, and the man who falls is Charlie Gordon.
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