Ancient Literary Criticism

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 Demetrius''s On Style and Tacitus''s Dialogue on Orators. It''s shorter passages range from Homer to Hermogenes of Tarsus in addition to selections from Plato Dionysius of Halicarnassus Cicero the two Senecas and Quintilian.