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==History of literary criticism== | ==History of literary criticism== | ||
===Early or Classical critics=== | ===Early or Classical critics=== | ||
Before Plato, with the exception of a few occurrences there was no real literary criticism in the sense of theory of literature. He essentially attacked all poetry. However, Aristotle continued on his teacher’s ways, and further expanded upon Plato’s Ideas thus expanding and creating more literary criticism, and in the 4th century BC wrote the Poetics which gives specific example of critiques of contemporary works of art. These two men primarily gave birth to literary criticism. <ref | Before Plato, with the exception of a few occurrences there was no real literary criticism in the sense of theory of literature. He essentially attacked all poetry. However, Aristotle continued on his teacher’s ways, and further expanded upon Plato’s Ideas thus expanding and creating more literary criticism, and in the 4th century BC wrote the Poetics which gives specific example of critiques of contemporary works of art. These two men primarily gave birth to literary criticism. <ref>Hall, V. (1963). A Short History of Literay Criticism . London: The Merlin Press.</ref> | ||
====Early Critics and Texts==== | ====Early Critics and Texts==== | ||
*Plato: "Ion, Republic, Cratylus" | *Plato: "Ion, Republic, Cratylus" | ||