BIBLIOGRAPHY
There is no modern comprehensive work on this subject.
But see Momenti e problemi di storia dell'estetica, Vol. 1,
by various scholars (Milan, 1959), with rich bibliographies;
Karl Borinski, Die Antike in Poetik und Kunsttheorie vom
Ausgang des klassischen Altertums bis auf Goethe und
Wilhelm von Humboldt, 2 vols., in the series Das Erbe der
Alten, Vols. 9 and 10 (Leipzig, 1914-24); Critics and Criti-
cism, ed. Ronald S. Crane (Chicago, 1952); William K.
Wimsatt and Cleanth Brooks, Literary Criticism (New York,
1947).
For Greece and Rome, while out-of-date, still the best
is Eduard Müller, Geschichte der Theorie der Kunst bei den
Alten, 2 vols. (Breslau, 1834-37). See also J. W. H. Atkins,
Literary Criticism in Antiquity, 2 vols. (Cambridge, 1934;
reprint New York). Charles S. Baldwin, Ancient Rhetoric
and Poetic (New York, 1924). J. F. D'Alton, Roman Literary
Theory and Criticism (London, 1931). Ernesto Grassi, Die
Theorie des Schönen in der Antike (Cologne, 1962). G. M. A.
Grube, The Greek and Roman Critics (London, 1965).
W. Rhys Roberts, Greek Rhetoric and Literary Criticism
(New York, 1928). E. E. Sikes, The Greek View of Poetry
(London, 1931).
For the Middle Ages see especially Edgar De Bruyne,
Études d'esthétique médiévale, 3 vols. (Bruges, 1946); cf.
idem, Esthétique du moyen âge (Louvain, 1947); Ernst
Robert Curtius, Europäische Literatur und Lateinisches
Mittelalter, 2nd ed. (Bern, 1953), trans. Willard R. Trask as
European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages (Princeton,
1953; reprint New York). See also Rosario Assunto, Die
Theorie des Schönen im Mittelalter (Cologne, 1963). Charles
S. Baldwin, Medieval Rhetoric and Poetic (New York, 1928).
E. Faral, Les Arts poétiques du XIIe et XIIIe siècles (Paris,
1924). Franz Quadlbauer, “Die antike Theorie der genera
dicendi im lateinischen Mittelalter,” Üsterreichische
Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische
Klasse. Sitzungs-Berichte, 241, 2 (1962).
For the Renaissance and later, Joel Spingarn, A History
of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance (New York, 1899),
is out-of-date but still useful; but see Charles S. Baldwin,
Renaissance Literary Theory and Practice (New York, 1939).
See also J. W. H. Atkins, English Literary Criticism, Vol.
I, The Renascence (London and New York, 1947; 1968), and
Vol. II, 17th and 18th Centuries (London and New York,
1951). Karl Borinski, Die Poetik der Renaissance und die
Anfänge der literarischen Kritik in Deutschland (Berlin,
1886). René Bray, La formation de la doctrine classique en
France (Paris, 1927). August Buck, Italienische Dichtungs-
lehren vom Mittelalter bis zum Ausgang der Renaissance,
Beihefte, Vol. 94 (1952). Baxter Hathaway, The Age of
Criticism, The Late Renaissance in Italy (Ithaca, 1962); cf.
review by E. N. Tigerstedt, Lychnos (1965-66). Bruno
Markwardt, Geschichte der deutschen Poetik, 2 vols.
(Leipzig, 1956-57). Raymond Naves, Le goût de Voltaire
(Paris, 1938). Warner F. Patterson, Three Centuries of French
Poetic Theory, 2 vols. (Ann Arbor, 1936). Henri Peyre,
Qu'est-ce que le classicisme?, revised ed. (Paris, 1965).
Bernard A. Weinberg, A History of Literary Criticism in
the Italian Renaissance, 2 vols. (Chicago, 1961); cf. review
by E. N. Tigerstedt, Lychnos (1962). Ciro Trabalza, La
critica letteraria, secoli XV-XVI-XVII (Milan, 1915).
E. N. TIGERSTEDT
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