CHAPTER II. SYMBOLIC-DIDACTIC GROUP 83-127

I. FABLE--Æsop--Other early fabulists--"Hitopadesa" and "Panchatantra"--"Reynard the Fox" and bestiaries--Some more writers of fables--Working definition--Classes of fables: rational, non-rational, mixed--How to write an original fable--Maxims upon which fables may be built--Examples 83

II. PARABLE--Distinguishing characteristics--Tolstoy--Suggestions on writing a parable--Working definition--A list of proverbs that might be expanded into parables--Examples 101

III. ALLEGORY--Characteristics--Plato's "Vision of Er"--Modern allegories--Some famous English allegories--Allegory fable, and parable differentiated--Working definition--How to write an allegory--Present-day interest in primitive types--Examples 112