Ancient Literary Criticism: The Principal Texts in New Translations

by Michael Winterbottom

Book Overview

Ancient literary criticism has always been a particularly inaccessible subject for the non-specialist student. This edition provides for the first time the principal texts in translation, giving the reader a full view of ancient literary criticism and its development. In addition to well-known texts such as Aristotle's Poetics, Horace's Art of Poetry, and Longinus's On Sublimity, the book includes complete versions of Aristotle's Rhetoric Book III,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198143605
• ISBN13: 9780198143604
• Release Date: November 1988
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 624 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.3" x 8.0"