num_pages: 378
description: Volume 1 of The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism focuses on criticism in the Classical period up to about A.D. 325. This first survey examines the beginnings of critical consciousness in Greece, including the functions of poetry and the role of poets in early Greek society, and continues with authoritative discussion of the critical writings of Aristophanes, Plato, Aristotle and Hellenistic scholars. It examines Roman figures including Horace, Cicero, Quintilian and Tacitus, and also considers Greek critics of the Augustan and imperial periods such as Longinus, and the neo-platonic, Christian and grammatical writers of later antiquity.
language: English
title: The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Volume 1: Classical Criticism
titlecomplete: The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Volume 1: Classical Criticism
genres: Reference, Criticism, Literary Criticism, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 7
series: Cambridge History of Literary Criticism
publisher: Cambridge University Press