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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
1. Homer and the Early Greek Poets
2. Aristophanes
3. Gorgias and the Sophists
4. Plato
5. Aristotle
6. The Alexandrians
7. Horace
8. Longinus
9. Epilogue
FURTHER READING
LITERARY CHRONOLOGY
PLATO
Ion
Republic 2
Republic 3
Republic 10
ARISTOTLE: Poetics
INTRODUCTION: Poetry as Imitation
CHAPTER 1: The Media of Poetic Imitation
CHAPTER 2: The Objects of Poetic Imitation
CHAPTER 3: The Manner of Poetic Imitation
CHAPTER 4: The Origins and Development of Poetry
CHAPTER 5: The Rise of Comedy: Epic Compared with Traged
CHAPTER 6: A Description of Tragedy
CHAPTER 7: The Scope of the Plot
CHAPTER 8: Unity of Plot
CHAPTER 9: Poetry and History
CHAPTER 10: Simple and Complex Plots
CHAPTER 11: Reversal, Recognition, and Suffering
CHAPTER 12: The Main Parts of Tragedy
CHAPTER 13: Tragic Action
CHAPTER 14: Fear and Pity
CHAPTER 15: The Characters of Tragedy
CHAPTER 16: The Different Kinds of Recognition
CHAPTER 17: Some Rules for the Tragic Poet
CHAPTER 18: Further Rules for the Tragic Poet
CHAPTER 19: Thought and Diction
CHAPTER 20: Some Linguistic Definitions
CHAPTER 21: Poetic Diction
CHAPTER 22: Diction and Style
CHAPTER 23: Epic Poetry
CHAPTER 24: Epic Poetry (continued)
CHAPTER 25: Critical Objections and Their Answers
CHAPTER 26: Epic and Tragedy Compared
HORACE: The Art of Poetry
LONGINUS: On the Sublime
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1: First Thoughts on Sublimity
CHAPTER 2: Is There an Art of the Sublime?
CHAPTER 3: Defects That Militate Against Sublimity
CHAPTER 4: Frigidity
CHAPTER 5: The Origins of Literary Impropriety
CHAPTER 6: Criticism and the Sublime
CHAPTER 7: The True Sublime
CHAPTER 8: Five Sources of Sublimity
CHAPTER 9: Natural Greatness
CHAPTER 10: The Selection and Organization of Material
CHAPTER 11: Amplification
CHAPTER 12: Amplification Defined
CHAPTER 13: Plato and the Sublime: Imitation
CHAPTER 14: Some Practical Advice
CHAPTER 15: Visualization
CHAPTER 16: Rhetorical Figures: Adjuration
CHAPTER 17: Rhetorical Figures and Sublimity
CHAPTER 18: Rhetorical Questions
CHAPTER 19: Asyndeton, or the Omission of Conjunctions
CHAPTER 20: The Accumulation of Figures
CHAPTER 21: Conjunctions: Some Disadvantages
CHAPTER 22: The Figure of Hyperbaton, or Inversion
CHAPTER 23: Polyptoton: Interchange of Singular and Plural
CHAPTER 24: Polyptoton: Conversion of Plural to Singular
CHAPTER 25: Polyptoton: Interchange of Tenses
CHAPTER 26: Polyptoton: Variations of Person, or Personal Address
CHAPTER 27: Polyptoton: Conversion to the First Person
CHAPTER 28: Periphrasis
CHAPTER 29: The Dangers of Periphrasis
CHAPTER 30: The Proper Choice of Diction
CHAPTER 31: Familiar Language
CHAPTER 32: Metaphor
CHAPTER 33: Superiority of Flawed Sublimity to Flawless Mediocrity
CHAPTER 34: Hyperides and Demosthenes
CHAPTER 35: Plato and Lysias
CHAPTER 36: Sublimity and Literary Fame
CHAPTER 37: Comparisons and Similes
CHAPTER 38: Hyperbole
CHAPTER 39: Composition, or Disposition of Material
CHAPTER 40: The Structure of the Sentence
CHAPTER 41: Some Impediments to Sublimity
CHAPTER 42: Conciseness
CHAPTER 43: Triviality of Expression, and Amplification
CHAPTER 44: The Decay of Eloquence
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