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Classic Literary Criticism Vertical Goodman’s commentary places Hayy IbnThe power of poets has always been recognized and often feared. Plato would have banned them from his ideal republic: other thinkers, fascinated by poetic genius, have tried to understand it. This volume contains three famous classical discussions of creative writing: Aristotle's Poetics, the Ars Poetica of Horace, and the treatise On the Sublime (long though falsely attributed to Longinus). These 'sacred books' of literary criticism were the source