Ancient rhetoric and poetic, interpreted from representative works

Ancient rhetoric and poetic, interpreted from representative works

Author: Baldwin, Charles Sears, 1867-1935

Year: 1924

Rhetoric and poetic.--The Rhetoric of Aristotle.--Rhetoric in the De oratore and Orator of Cicero.--The teaching of rhetoric: Quintilian on the teaching of rhetoric (De institutione oratoria) Declamatio in Seneca, Tacitus, and Pliny.--The literary criticism of rhetoric: Dionysius of Halicarnassus on sentences. The Great unknown on imaginative diction; ("Longinus on the sublime")--The Poetic of Aristotle.--Poetic in ancient drama and narrative.--Rhetoric in ancient criticism of poetic.--Tabular index of Latin and Greek rhetorical terms.--General index