Classical Literary Criticism
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This excellent and accessible work includes many major texts in translation: Aristotle's Poetics, Longinus' On Sublimity, Horace's Art of Poetry, Tacitus' Dialogues, and extracts from Plato and Plutarch. Based on the highly praised Ancient Literary Criticism (OUP, 1972), it contains a new introduction and explanatory notes, and will be of enormous value to students both of Latin and Greek and of literary criticism and theory.
About this Author
D. A. Russell is Professor of Classical Literature at the University of Oxford and Fellow of St John's College, Oxford and M. Winterbottom is a Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford.
Reviews
'A very useful selection.' Dr M. S. Silk, King's College, London
'A very useful collection.' Anne Sheppard, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College
'An excellent collection.' M. J. Blumenthal, University of Liverpool
'A fine selection at an attractive price. It is good to see some less well known texts of ancient criticism included.' Dr Alison Sharrock, University of Keele
'I welcome this book particularly for the less familiar authors not easily accessible to students.' Dr M. A. Bromley, St Mary's College, Strawberry Hill
'extremely useful to students' P. E. Easterling, University College, London
'An excellent anthology' Dr A. P. Baldwin, Cambridge University
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