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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