Classic Literary Criticism

Regular price
Unit price
per
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Classic Literary Criticism

Regular price
Unit price
per
Condition guide

Save 10% On This Item as a Thryft Club Member

Join Thryft Club for S$30/year and enjoy 10% off everything, plus S$10 off your first order. Join now →

ISBN: 0140441557
Authors: T. S. Dorsch
Publisher: Penguin Books
Related Collections: Literature & Literary Criticism

Description

The power of poets has always been recognized - and often feared. Plato would have banned them from his ideal republic: other thinkers, fascinated by poetic genius, have tried to understand it. This volume contains three famous classical discussions of creative writing: Aristotle's “Poetics”, the “Ars Poetica” of Horace, and the treatise “On the Sublime” (long though falsely attributed to Longinus). These 'sacred books' of literary criticism were the source of most subsequent appreciation of literature and the principles they lay down are worth the attention of every serious reader.

Published 1979.

Binding of the book is intact. Some shelfwear, creasing and fraying on covers of book. Heavy tanning and foxing on edges of book. Annotations in pen on inside of front cover. Some foxing on insides of covers. Some foxing on certain pages.
 

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.