Ancient literary criticism has always been a particularly inaccessible subject for the non-specialist. The relevant texts are difficult, diverse, and full of rhetorical language and concepts remote from our own; moreover, many are not available in English. This edition provides the principal texts in translation: Aristotle's Poetics , Horace's Art of Poetry , Longinus' On Sublimity , Tacitus' Dialogues , and extracts from Plato and Plutarch. The editors have written a new introduction for this edition, and provided ...
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Ancient literary criticism has always been a particularly inaccessible subject for the non-specialist. The relevant texts are difficult, diverse, and full of rhetorical language and concepts remote from our own; moreover, many are not available in English. This edition provides the principal texts in translation: Aristotle's Poetics , Horace's Art of Poetry , Longinus' On Sublimity , Tacitus' Dialogues , and extracts from Plato and Plutarch. The editors have written a new introduction for this edition, and provided explanatory notes.
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Good+ 0198143605. A bit of spotting to front wrap. Spine very creased and sunned. Shelfwear. Else VG.; 1.22 x 7.97 x 5.33 Inches; 622 pages; Ancient literary criticism has always been a particularly inaccessible subject for the non-specialist student. This edition provides for the first time the principal texts in translation, giving the reader a full view of ancient literary criticism and its development. In addition to well-known texts such as Aristotle's Poetics, Horace's Art of Poetry, and Longinus's On Sublimity, the book includes complete versions of Aristotle's Rhetoric Book III, Demetrius's On Style, and Tacitus's Dialogue on Orators. It's shorter passages range from Homer to Hermogenes of Tarsus, in addition to selections from Plato, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Cicero, the two Senecas, and Quintilian.
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