Classical Literary Criticism
Published on 1. November 1989
Book
Paperback/Softback
268 pages
978-0-19-281830-0 (ISBN)
Description
Aiming to make the texts of ancient literary criticism accessible to the non-specialist, this work provides translations for the principal texts such as Aristotle's "Poetics", Horace's "Art of Poetry", Longinus' "On Sublimity". Explanatory notes are provided.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
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notes, index of proper names, general index
ISBN-13
978-0-19-281830-0 (9780192818300)
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Content
Plato - "Ion"; "Republic" 2-3, 10; Aristotle - "Poetics"; Horace - Letter to Augustus, "The Art of Poetry"; Tacitus - "Dialogue on Orators"; Longinus - "On Sublimity"; Dio of Prusa - "Philoctetes in the Tragedians"; Plutarch - "On the study of poetry".