Ancient Literary Criticism: The Principal Texts in New Translations

by D.A. Russell (Editor), Michael Winterbottom

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.

624 pages, Paperback

First published February 3, 1971

Reviews

[Pedro Meerbaum]

Read for class. Not all chapters, but for personal reference here’s what I read from this

Gorgias - Encomium of Helen
Plato - Ion, Republic, Phaedrus
Aristotle- Poetics, Rhetoric
Cicero
Horace - Ars Poetica
Longinus - On sublimity

Will be coming back to this anthology