Polestar of the Ancients: The Aristotelian Tradition in Classical and English Literary CriticismUniversity of Delaware Press, 1979 - 237 pages Tracing the influence of Aristotle on literary criticism (both ancient and modern), the author analyzes such basic tenets as mimesis, universality, and morality in the theory of Horace, Longinus, Sir Philip Sidney, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Matthew Arnold, and others. |
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
Introduction | 13 |
Plato and Aristotle | 37 |
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Polestar of the Ancients: The Aristotelian Tradition in Classical and ... John O. Hayden Limited preview - 1979 |
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Wordsworth's Classical Undersong: Education, Rhetoric and Poetic Truth Richard W. Clancey No preview available - 2000 |