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Poetics: Longinus on the Sublime,
Demetrius on Style (Loeb Classical Library, L199)
by
Aristotle,
Stephen Halliwell (Editor),
W. H. Fyfe (Translator),
Dorren C. Innes (Editor),
Longinus on the Sublime,
Demetrius on Style,
Doreen Innes,
W. Rhys Roberts (Translator),
Donald Russell (Designer)
Stephen
Halliwell makes newly accessible one of the most influential
and widely cited works in the history of literary theory and
criticism. Aristotle's Poetics contains his treatment of
Greek tragedy: its history, nature, and conventions, with
details on poetic diction. This is the only edition of this
central work in which readers can find, side by side, a
reliable Greek text, a translation that is both accurate and
readable, and notes that explain allusions and key ideas.
Halliwell's Introduction traces the work's debt to earlier
theorists (especially Plato), its distinctive argument, and
the reasons behind its enduring relevance.
Also included in the volume are two central
post-Aristotelian treatises on literary style: On the
Sublime, a discussion of distinguished style (with
illustrative passages) probably written in the 1st century
A.D.; and On Style, a valuable guide to the Greek theory of
styles that dates perhaps as early as the 2nd century B.C.
For this new version of Volume XXIII of the Loeb Classical
Library Aristotle edition, Fyfe's translation of On the
Sublime has been retained but judiciously revised by Donald
Russell. Doreen C. Innes' fresh reading of On Style is based
on the earlier translation by Roberts. The new Introductions
and notes by Russell and Innes reflect today's scholarship.
Series No. 199 / 540 pages / ISBN
0674995635
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