Classical Literary Criticism
Donald Andrew Russell, Michael Winterbottom et Collectif1972

European literary criticism was pioneered in the ancient world, and this edition provides the principal Greek and Latin texts in translation, giving the reader a fair and intelligible view of ancient literary critiscism and its development. As well as complete versions of Aristotle's Poetics (in the important translation with detailed notes by Margaret Hubbard), Horace's Letter to Augustus and Art of Poetry, Tacitus' Dialogue on Orators, and the treatise On Sublimity attributed to Longinus, there are extracts from Plato, Plutarch, and Dio of Prusa. Each passage is supplemented by a brief contextual introduction, and a lucid general introduction provides an overview of classical throught on tragedy, comedy, poetry, and epic, as well as of the ideas of mimesis, the moral effect of poetry, emotion, and rhetoric.

Texts:
Plato - Ion
Plato - Republic 2-3
Plato - Republic 10
Aristotle - Poetics
Horace - A Letter to Augustus
Horace - The Art of Poetry
Tacitus - Dialogue on Orators
"Longinus" - On Sublimity
Dio of Prusa - Philoctetes in the Tragedians
Plutarch - On the Study of Poetry

Titre original : Classical Literary Criticism (1972)