Classical Literary Criticism

Aristotle's Poetics have defined a critical terminology for generations of writers. In the Ars Poetica Horace defends the civilizing power of poetry, while the ... » 

Aristotle's Poetics have defined a critical terminology for generations of writers. In the Ars Poetica Horace defends the civilizing power of poetry, while the treatise On the Sublime stresses the innate ability required to produce poetry of sublime grandeur. «