The works collected in this volume have profoundly shaped the history of criticism in the Western world: they created much of the terminology still in use today

This volume provides, in translation, the principal texts of ancient literary criticism, including Aristotle's Poetics, Horace's Art of Poetry, Longinus' On Sub

Literary Criticism from Plato to the Present provides a concise and authoritative overview of the development of Western literary criticism and theory from the