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T. S. Dorsch (Translation And Introduction)
Language: English
Published by Penguin Books, 1965
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- Title
- Classical Literary Criticism A
- Author
- T. S. Dorsch (Translation And Introduction)
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Publication year
- 1965
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0140441557
- ISBN 13
- 9780140441550
In her Introduction, Penelope Murray compares and contrasts the viewpoints of these formidable critics as well as their impact on the Western tradition. This edition also includes a new bibliography and chronology and comprehensive notes to each of the texts.
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From the Back Cover
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.
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