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9780140446517

Classical Literary Criticism

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    9780140446517

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    0140446516

  • Edition: Revised
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-05-01
  • Publisher: Penguin Classic

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This new edition of Classical Literary Criticism contains the landmarks of ancient literary criticism in accessible and lucid translations.In her Introduction Penelope Murray shows how many of the most fruitful approaches to understanding literature in the Western tradition derive from these canonical texts. Plato is often regarded as the most poetic of the great philosophers, but he mistrusted the god-like power of poets to work on our feelings and famously banished them from his ideal Republic. Aristotle responded by defending the value of art in his Poetics. His analysis of tragedy, with its key concepts of mimesis, catharsis and hamartia, has influenced generations of critics from the Renaissance onwards. Horace's The Art of Poetry is a vivid practitioner's guide that promotes a style of poetic craftsmanship rooted in wisdom, ethical insight and decorum, while Longinus' remarkable On the Sublime explores the nature of inspiration in poetry and prose.This edition also features a new bibliography and chronology as well as comprehensive notes to each of the texts.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii
Homer and the Early Greek Poets viii
Aristophanes xvi
Gorgias and the Sophists xx
Plato xxiii
Aristotle xxix
The Alexandrians xxxvi
Horace xxxix
Longinus xliv
Epilogue l
Further Reading lii
Literary Chronology lviii
Plato
Ion
1(14)
Republic 2
15(9)
Republic 3
24(16)
Republic 10
40(17)
Aristotle
Poetics
57(41)
Horace
The Art of Poetry
98(15)
Longinus
On the Sublime
113(54)
Notes 167

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