Literary criticism : Plato to Dryden
This anthology of literary criticism is no simple collection of fragments from great critics. It is, in a way, a documentary history of literary taste, or better, a documentary history of the taste of literary critics ... It contains material that is inaccessible in many university libraries and an index which ties together the various selections and gives the book a unity which most anthologies unfortunately lack ..." [Cover]
Waynebook, no. 1
Criticism, interpretation, etc
ix, 704 pages ; 21 cm.
9780814311578, 9780814311585, 9780814311608, 0814311571, 081431158X, 0814311601
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The Ion ; The Republic ; The Laws / Plato
The Poetics / Aristotle
The Art of Poetry / Horace
On literary excellence / Dionysius or Longinus
The Letter to Can Grande della Scale / Dante
The Life of Dante / Giovanni Boccaccio
Poetica / Giangiorgio Trissino
The Governor / Sir Thomas Elyot
An Address to the reader by the tragedy of Orbecche ; The Apology for Dido ; On the composition of comedies and tragedies ; On the composition of romances / Giraldi Cinthio. L'arte poetica / Antonio Minturno
A Commentary on the Poetics of Aristotle / Lodovico Castelvetro
A Discourse in defense of the Comedy of Dante ; On the defense of the Comedy / Jacopo Mazzoni
The Defense of Poesie / Sir Philip Sidney
The Letter to Sir Walter Raleigh / Edmund Spenser
Discourses on the heroic poem / Torquato Tasso
The Compendium of tragicomic poetry / Giambattista Guarini
Every man out of his humor ; To the readers of Sejanus / Ben Johnson
The New art of making comedies / Lope De Vega
The Dedication of The revenge of Bussy d'Ambois / George Chapman
To the reader of The White devil / John Webster. An Apology for actors / Thomas Heywood
The Book concerning German poetry / Martin Opitz
The Roman actor / Philip Massinger
The Dedicatory epistle to La Suivante ; Discourse on dramatic poetry ; Discourse on the three unities / Pierre Corneille
The Preface to Ibrahim / Georges De Scudéry
The Reason of church government ; The Preface to Samson Agonistes ; Paradise regained / John Milton
Les Visionnaires ; Of comedy / Pierre Nicole
An Essay of dramatic poesy / John Dryden
Of tragedy, ancient and modern ; On the imitation of the ancients ; The Letter to the Duchess of Mazarin / Saint-Évremond
The Preface to Theatrum poetarum / Edward Phillips
Originally published: 1940