Description: This volume attempts to represent European theories of poetry from Plato's time to the year 1700.
Review Quotes:
Professor Gilbert's anthology of literary criticism is no simple collection of fragments from great critics. It is, in a way. a documentary history of literary taste, or better, a documentary history of the taste of literary critic . . . It contains material that is inaccessible in many university libraries and an index which ties together the various selections and gives the book a unity which most anthologies unfortunately lack.
-- "Modern Language Notes"