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    The document discusses literary criticism, outlining its history and key aspects. It defines literary criticism as the reasoned consideration and analysis of literary works and issues. The history of literary criticism began with the Greeks, though little of their work survives. Aristotle's Poetics focused on drama, while Plato theorized on literature. Later important works came from Romans like Horace and Cicero. The first major critical essay in the Christian era was Longinus's On the Sublime. Overall the document provides a brief overview of literary criticism, its definition, history and some notable early critics.

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    The document discusses literary criticism, outlining its history and key aspects. It defines literary criticism as the reasoned consideration and analysis of literary works and issues. The history of literary criticism began with the Greeks, though little of their work survives. Aristotle's Poetics focused on drama, while Plato theorized on literature. Later important works came from Romans like Horace and Cicero. The first major critical essay in the Christian era was Longinus's On the Sublime. Overall the document provides a brief overview of literary criticism, its definition, history and some notable early critics.

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    The document discusses literary criticism, outlining its history and key aspects. It defines literary criticism as the reasoned consideration and analysis of literary works and issues. The history of literary criticism began with the Greeks, though little of their work survives. Aristotle's Poetics focused on drama, while Plato theorized on literature. Later important works came from Romans like Horace and Cicero. The first major critical essay in the Christian era was Longinus's On the Sublime. Overall the document provides a brief overview of literary criticism, its definition, history and some notable early critics.

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    Subject: Literary Criticism

    Topic: Literary Criticism, Qualities of a good


    Critic, Aristotle as a Critic
    Submitted to: Miss Noreen Saba
    Submitted by: Qamar Aftab
    Class: BS English 4th Semester
    Roll No: F18-005-9996

    Riphah International University


    Faisalabad Campus
    Literary Criticism

    Outline:
    1. Criticism
    2. Literary Criticism
    3. History of Literary Criticism
    4. Qualities of a good critic
    5. Aristotle as a critic
    Literary Criticism

    Criticism:
    A remark or comment that expresses approval or disapproval of something
    or someone is known as criticism. Like; the activity of making careful
    judgment about the good and bad qualities of book, movie etc. A person who
    does this activity is known as a critic.
    Literary Criticism:
    The word ‘Criticism’ is derived from the Greek root ‘krinei’ which means to
    judge and the term ‘kritikos’ which means a judge of literature.
    Criticism is the reasoned consideration of literary works and issues. It
    applies, as a term, to any argumentation about literature, whether or not
    specific works are analyzed. Plato’s cautions against the risky consequences
    of poetic inspiration in general in his Republic are thus often taken as the
    earliest important example of literary criticism.
    Literary criticism is an independent field of study. It justifies the literary
    work. It is a systematic study of literature. It examines the excellences and
    defects of a literary work and finally evaluates its artistic worth.
    History of Literary Criticism:
    Literary criticism begins with the Greeks, but little of their work has
    survived. Aristotle’s Poetics is mostly devoted to drama; and Plato’s theories
    of literature are scarcely literary criticism. From the Romans the major
    works are Horace’s Ars Poetica and the works on rhetoric composed by
    Cicero and Quintilian. The first important critical essay in the Christian era
    is Longinus’s On His Sublime, and the first medieval critic of note was
    Dante who, in his De Vulgari Eloquentic, addressed himself to the problems
    of language appropriate to poetry.

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