Ancient literary criticism has always been a particularly inaccessible subject for the non-specialist student. This edition provides for the first time the principal texts in translation, giving the reader a full view of ancient literary criticism and its development. In addition to well-known texts such as Aristotle's
Poetics
, Horace's
Art of Poetry
, and Longinus's
On Sublimity
, the book includes complete versions of Aristotle's
Rhetoric Book III
, Demetrius's
On Style
, and Tacitus's
Dialogue on Orators
. It's shorter passages range from Homer to Hermogenes of Tarsus, in addition to selections from Plato, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Cicero, the two Senecas, and Quintilian.