Literary Criticism: A Short History. Classical and neo-classical criticism, Volume 1University of Chicago P., 1978 - 336 pages |
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Page 71
... doctrine made current by Isocrates had been heard before from sophists and much earlier had had a more lyric orientation , as in the myth of Orpheus taming savage men and beasts by his music , and that of Amphion charming stones with ...
... doctrine made current by Isocrates had been heard before from sophists and much earlier had had a more lyric orientation , as in the myth of Orpheus taming savage men and beasts by his music , and that of Amphion charming stones with ...
Page 72
... doctrine of the Logos with all that it implied was a doctrine less dear even to poets and grammarians than to statesmen . It was one of the main theoretical supports of a life devoted to public leadership . " I am grateful to the Stoics ...
... doctrine of the Logos with all that it implied was a doctrine less dear even to poets and grammarians than to statesmen . It was one of the main theoretical supports of a life devoted to public leadership . " I am grateful to the Stoics ...
Page 92
... doctrine that the aim of poetry is twofold , to charm and at the same time to be a use- ful teacher . It is this adjustment of the issue , the hedonistic - pedagogic compromise , which we find in one of the passages of the Ars Poetica ...
... doctrine that the aim of poetry is twofold , to charm and at the same time to be a use- ful teacher . It is this adjustment of the issue , the hedonistic - pedagogic compromise , which we find in one of the passages of the Ars Poetica ...
Contents
Socrates and the Rhapsode PAGE | 3 |
The Internal Focus 555 | 16 |
Poetry as Structure | 21 |
Copyright | |
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