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384 B.C.,in the dominion of the Mace-donian kings.He studied in Athens under Plato,leaving on his death,andsome time later became tutor to the young Alexander the Great.OnAlexander's succession to the throne in 335 B.C.,Aristotle returned toAthens and established the Lyceum,where his vast erudition attracted alarge number of scholars.After Alexander's death he was regarded insome quarters with suspicion,because he had been known as Alexander'sfriend.He was accused of impiety,and consequently fled to Chalcis inEuboea,where he died in the same year.His writings covered an ex-tremely wide range of subjects,and fortunately many of them havesurvived.Among the most famous are the Etbics and the Politics.Thesehave both been published in Penguin Classics.  \nHorace,the Latin lyric poet and satirist,was born in Venusia in Apuliain about 65 B.C.He was educated in Rome and Athens.In 44 Horaceenlisted in Brutus's army and fought at Philippi as a military tribune.Ensuing poverty,he says,drove him to write poetry.Horace is said to bethe most quoted author of antiquity,appealing to a wider range of readersof every age and at any age,than any other ancient poet.Among hiswritings are Satires I,Satires II,the Epodes,Odes I-II and the Epistle Iand Epistles II.The Odes have been published in Penguin Classics.  \nIt has been thought that the treatise On the Sublime was written byCassius Longinus who was a 3rd-century B.C.Greek rhetorician,ministerof Zenobia,queen of Palmyra.However,it is now generally ascribed toan unknown Greek author,Longinus,writing in the mid ist-century B.C.  \nT.S.Dorsch was Professor of English at the University of Durhamfrom 1968 until his retirement in r976.He also taught at Westfield Col-lege,University of London,where he was Reader.Among his publicationsis the Shakespeare section in Tbe New Cambridge Bibliograpby of EnglisbLiterature (1974).  \nCLASSICALLITERARY CRITICISM  \nARISTOTLE:On the Art of Poetry  \nHoRACE:On the Art of Poetry  \nLoNGINUS:On the Sublime  \nTRANSLATED WITHAN INTRODUCTION BY  \nT.S.Dorsch  \nPENGUIN BOOKS  \nPenguin Books Ltd,Harmondsworth,Middlesex,EnglandPenguin Books,625 Madison Avenue,New York,New York ro022,U.S.A.Penguin Books Australia Ltd,Ringwood,Victoria,Australia  \nPenguin Books Canada Ltd,28or Jobn Street,Markham,Ontario,Canada L3R IB4Penguin Books(N.Z.)Ltd,182-1go Wairau Road,Auckland ro,New Zealand  \n一  \nThis translation first published in r965Reprinted r967,1969,1970,1972,1974,1975,I977,1978,1979,Ig8r  \n一  \nCopyright ◎T.S.Dorsch,r965All rights reserved  \n一  \nSet,printed and bound in Great Britain byCox &Wyman Ltd,ReadingSet in Monotype Garamond  \nExcept in the UnitedStates of America,this book is sold subject to the conditionthat it shall not,by way of trade or otherwise,be lent,re-sold,hired out,or otherwise circulatedwithout the publisher's prior consent in any form ofbinding or cover other than that in which it ispublished and without a similar conditionincluding this condition being imposedon the subsequent purchaser  \nContents  \nINTRODUCTION7  \nARISTOTLE;On tbe Art of Poetry  \n29  \nHORACE:On tbe Art of Poetry  \n77  \nLONGINUS:On tbe Sublime  \n97  \nIntroduction  \nTHE translations in this volume begin with Aristotle's Poetics.But literary criticism,as the term is understood today,didnot come into being with Aristotle,any more than epic poetrycame into being with the Homeric poems or English poetrywith Chaucer.A very rudimentary form of literary criticismmay perhaps be discerned already in Homer and Hesiod,bothof whom regard poetry as the product of divine inspiration;for Homer its function is to give pleasure,for Hesiod to giveinstruction,to pass on the message breathed into the poet bythe Muse.Afew literary pronouncements are scattered throughthe odes of Pindar,and the philosophers Xenophanes andHeraclitus both find fault with passages of Homer.Discussionof these first stirrings 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