Author: KENNEDY, GEORGE A. (ED. )
Title: The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism Volume 1: Classical Criticism
Description: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Hardcover. ISBN: 0521300061. Small stain to front board along bottom edge (does not affect text) and tiny stain to top of textblock. Scholar's small bookplate to ffep (R. E. Fantham-- one of the contributors as well). DJ has some light creasing and yellowing along top edge. ; Volume 1 of The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism focuses on criticism in the Classical period up to about A. D. 325. This first survey examines the beginnings of critical consciousness in Greece, including the functions of poetry and the role of poets in early Greek society, and continues with authoritative discussion of the critical writings of Aristophanes, Plato, Aristotle and Hellenistic scholars. It examines Roman figures including Horace, Cicero, Quintilian and Tacitus, and also considers Greek critics of the Augustan and imperial periods such as Longinus, and the neo-platonic, Christian and grammatical writers of later antiquity. ; Vol. 1; 400 pages. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket .

Keywords: 0521300061 Literary Criticism Classical Greek & Roman Reference


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