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Classical Literary Criticism: Plato: Ion; Republic by Penelope Murray

ISBN: 9780140446517 PUBLISHER: Penguin Books Ltd FORMAT: Paperback PAGES: 256 PUBLICATION DATE: 17.04.2000 DIMENSIONS: 198mmX129mmX15mm 191grams

DESCRIPTION: Aristotle's "Poetics" has long been recognized as a seminal work of literary criticism. His analysis of tragic drama, epic poetry and stylistic devices such as metaphor, and his famous notion of the cathartic purging of the emotions, have defined a critical terminology for generations of later writers. In the "Ars Poetica" Horace defends the civilizing power of poetry and the fundamental importance of the principle decorum; while the anonymous author of the treatise "On the Sublime" (who was formerly erroneously thought to be Longinus) stresses the innate ability required to produce poetry of sublime grandeur.

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