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European literary criticism was pioneered in the ancient world, and this edition provides the principal Greek and Latin texts in translation, giving the reader a fair and intelligible view of ancient literary criticism and its development. As well as complete vesions of Aristotle`s Poetics (in the important trasnaltion with detailed notes by Margaret Hubbard), Horace`s Leter to Augusts and Art of Poetry, Tacitus` Dialogue on Orators, and the treatise on Sublimity attributed to Longinus, there are extracts from Plato, Plutarch, and Dio of Prusa. Each passage is supplemented by a brief contextual introduction and lucid general introduction provides an overview of classical thought on tragedy, comedy, poetry, and epic, as well as of the ideas of mimesis, the moral effect of poetry, emotion, and rhetoric.ISBN - 9780199535125
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Pages : 250
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