The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 1, Classical Criticism

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The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 1, Classical Criticism is written by George Alexander Kennedy and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0521300061 (ISBN 10) and 9780521300063 (ISBN 13).

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.