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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: good poem according to Philodemus
  name:
    name part: McOsker, Michael
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 307 pages ; 25 cm.
  abstract: The poetics of Philodemus of Gadara, who was a first century BCE Epicurean philosopher and poet, whose On Poems survives among the Herculaneum papyri. His main critical principle is that form and content are inseparable and mutually-reinforcing, a change in one means a change in the other. The poet uses this marriage of form and content to create a hard-to-pin-down psychological effect in the audience. Poems produce "additional thoughts" in the audience, and these entertain them. It seems clear that Philodemus expected good poets to arrange form and content suggestively, so that the poems could exert a lasting pull on the minds of the audience. Additionally, the author summarizes the views of Philodemus' opponents, the terminology of Hellenistic literary criticism and the history of the Garden's engagement with poetics. Epicurus did not write an On Poems but Metrodorus did, and this is probably Philodemus' touchstone for his own views. The book concludes with an appendix of topics that Philodemus handles but which do not fit neatly into another chapter. His views on genre, mimesis, "appropriateness," utility and various technical terms are discussed.
  note: Michael McOsker.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-275) and indexes.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Philodemus
      name part: approximately 110 B.C.-approximately 40 B.C
  subject:
    topic: Poetics
    topic: History
    temporal: To 1500
  subject:
    topic: Greek poetry
    topic: History and criticism
    topic: Theory, etc
  classification: PA4271.P4 M36 2021
  classification: 808.1
  identifier: 9780190912819
  identifier: 0190912812
  identifier: 9780190912833
  identifier: 2021016477
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 210511
    record change date: 20220209152405.2
    record identifier: in00004550886