Literary Criticism: Plato to DrydenThis volume attempts to represent European theories of poetry from Plato's time to the year 1700. Editor Allan H. Gilbert has selected writers who in their own day spoke for the future rather than the past, and those whose conceptions are of value at present, either in developing our own critical thought or in interpreting the most important literature of their own ages. |
Contents
The Ion | 8 |
The Republic | 24 |
The Laws | 55 |
ARISTOTLE | 63 |
The Poetics | 69 |
HORACE | 125 |
DIONYSIUS OR LONGINUS | 144 |
DANTE | 199 |
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY | 404 |
EDMUND SPENSER | 462 |
GIAMBATTISTA GUARINI | 504 |
BEN JONSON | 534 |
LOPE DE VEGA | 540 |
GEORGE CHAPMAN | 549 |
An Apology for Actors | 553 |
MARTIN OPITZ | 565 |
GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO | 207 |
Poetica | 213 |
SIR THOMAS ELYOT | 233 |
GIRALDI CINTHIO | 242 |
On the Composition of Comedies and Tragedies | 252 |
On the Composition of Romances | 262 |
Larte poetica | 275 |
A Commentary on the Poetics of Aristotle | 305 |
JACOPO MAZZONI | 358 |
PIERRE CORNEILLE | 574 |
GEORGES DE SCUDÉRY | 580 |
JOHN MILTON | 586 |
The Preface to Samson Agonistes | 592 |
JOHN DRYDEN | 600 |
SAINTÉVREMOND | 659 |
The Letter to the Duchess of Mazarin | 665 |
Corrigenda | 705 |
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| Title | Literary Criticism: Plato to Dryden Issue 1 of Waynebooks Series |
| Author | Allan H. Gilbert |
| Editor | Allan H. Gilbert |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Wayne State University Press, 1962 |
| ISBN | 0814311601, 9780814311608 |
| Length | 704 pages |
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