Plato on poetry

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Title Statements

Full title :Plato on poetry / edited by Penelope Murray.

Summary

Much has been written in recent years on Plato as a critic of literature; but no commentaries have appeared in English on the Ion, or the opening books of the Republic in which Plato launches his attack on poetry, since the early years of this century. This volume brings together these texts and the relevant section of Republic 10. It aims to provide the reader with a commentary which takes account of modern scholarship on the subject, and which explores the ambivalence of Plato's pronouncements on poetry through an analysis of his own skill as a writer. A general introduction sets Plato's views in the wider context of attitudes to poetry in Greek society before his time, and indicates the main ways in which his writings on poetry have influenced the history of aesthetic thought in European culture.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1995.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Language:eng
Publication Date:1995.

The Physical Object

Description:ix, 250 pages ; : 20 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0521341825, 9780521341820, 0521349818, 9780521349819
oclc:ocm32274716
LC Classification:PA4279
Dewey Decimal:808.1

Ion -- Republic 376e-398b9 -- Republic 595-608b10.

Subjects

Dialogues Dialogues (Literature) Dialogues (Littérature) Dialogues, Greek Dichtkunst Early works Ion,, of Athens PlatÃo Plato Platon Poetics Poetics -- Early works to 1800 Poétique Poétique -- Ouvrages avant 1800