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1. Classical and Neo-classical Period of Literary Philosophy:
• Plato and Literary Theory: Selections from Ion, The Republic and Symposium, Chapter X [PLATO]
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• Aristotle’s idea of literature in The Poetics
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Horace’s Art of Poetry: Literature, Ethics, Function of Poetry.
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Neo-Platonic Philosophy of Literature: Plotinus and Longinus
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2. Medieval Period and Manner of Art: Saint Augustine and Saint Thomas Aquinas
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. The Renaissance: SIR PHILIP SIDNEY, Cornelius.
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The Enlightenment:
? JOHN DRIDEN; An Essay of Dramatic Poesy
? SAMUEL JOHNSON Rambler, Number 4: On Fiction; from Preface to Shakespeare,
Chapter 10 “Imlac’s History Continued. A Dissertation Upon Poetry”,
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? JOHN LOCKE; From An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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ALEXANDER POPE An Essay on Criticism
? JOSEPH ADDISON On the Pleasures of the Imagination
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DAVID HUME Of the Standard of Taste
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5. The Romantic:
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EDMUND BURKE; from A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH : Preface to Lyrical Ballads
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S. TAYLOR COLERIDGE: Biographia Literaria and Lectures on Shakespeare
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. The Victorians:
? T. DE QUINCEY; The literature of knowledge and the Literature of Power
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J. STUART MILL; What is Poetry?
• MATHEW ARNOLD; The Function of Criticism at the Present Time
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The Modern
? T.S. ELIOT Tradition and the Individual Talent
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M.H. ABRAMS Orientation of Critical Theories
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RENE WELLEK, AUSTEN WARREN Literary Theory, Criticism and History
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