1st Edition
Poetry and Criticism before Plato (Routledge Revivals)
By Rosemary Harriott
Copyright 1969
184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
Aristotle is justly famed as the founder of literary criticism, but he was not its inventor: his approach was shaped, not only by the ideas newly current in the fourth century, but also by the literature, critical attitudes and language which he inherited. It is this inheritance which concerns the author of Poetry and Criticism Before Plato , first published in 1969: setting the words of poets... Read more
Foreword; Abbreviations; Chronological Table; Introduction: The Background to Criticism 1. The Muses 2. The Poets and the Muses: Homer to Anacreon 3. The Poets and the Muses: Pindar, Bacchylides and the Dramatists 4. Plato and the ‘Inspired’ Poet 5. Poetry as a Craft 6. The Poet and his Audience 7. The Beginnings of Criticism; Select Bibliography; Index Locorum; General index
Biography
Rosemary Harriott
