Classical Literary Criticism
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- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
17 May 2000
Summary
The Landmarks of Ancient Literary Criticism
This recently updated and expanded volume brings together seminal works that have profoundly shaped the history of literary criticism in the Western world. These texts not only created much of the terminology still in use today but also formulated enduring questions about the nature and function of literature.
In Ion, Plato examines the god-like power of poets to evoke feelings such as pleasure or fear. However, he…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140446517 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140446516 |
| Author: | Penelope Murray, T. Dorsch |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 17 May 2000 |
| Weight: | 192g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 16mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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About The Author
Penelope Murray
Plato (c.427-347BC) - philosopher whose thinking has shaped Western intellectual tradition.
Aristotle (384-322BC) - influential and prolific author of the Ethics and the Politics.
Horace (c.65-8BC) - a Latin lyric poet and satirist.
Longinus - an unknown Greek author writing mid 1ADT.
S. Dorsch was Professor of English at the University of Durham. He died in 1991.
Penelope Murray is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Warwick.
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