Ancient rhetoric and poetic : $b Interpreted from representative works
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"Ancient Rhetoric and Poetic: Interpreted from Representative Works" by Charles Sears Baldwin is a scholarly treatise written in the early 20th century. It surveys classical theories of rhetoric and poetics through representative authors to recover practical principles of composition for modern readers. The work argues for a twofold view of composition—rhetoric as public, logical persuasion and poetic as imaginative movement—while tracing how ancient practice informs medieval pedagogy and Renaissance criticism. The opening of the book sets out the author’s purpose and method in a preface: to let figures like Aristotle, Cicero, Quintilian, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, and the author of “On the Sublime” speak for themselves, with a strict focus on composition and a deliberate exclusion of metrics. Chapter I distinguishes rhetoric from poetic not by verse versus prose, but by the kind of movement—idea-to-idea for rhetoric versus image-to-image for poetic—while acknowledging shared stylist
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