CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTORY.
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| Delimitation of frontier | [3] |
| Classes of Criticism excluded | [4] |
| Class retained | [4] |
| Method | [4] |
| Texts the chief object | [5] |
| Hypotheses non fingo | [6] |
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| Illustration from M. Egger | [6] |
| The Documents | [7] |
| Greek | [7] |
| Roman | [7] |
| Mediæval | [7] |
| Renaissance and Modern | [8] |
CHAPTER II.
GREEK CRITICISM BEFORE ARISTOTLE.
| Earliest criticism of the Greeks | [9] |
| Probably Homeric in subject | [9] |
| Probably allegoric in method | [10] |
| Xenophanes | [12] |
| Parmenides | [13] |
| Empedocles | [13] |
| Democritus | [15] |
| The Sophists—earlier | [15] |
| The Sophists—later | [17] |
| Plato | [17] |
| His crotchets | [18] |
| His compensations | [19] |
| Aristophanes | [21] |
| The Frogs | [22] |
| Other criticism in Comedy | [23] |
| Simylus (?) | [25] |
| Isocrates | [26] |
CHAPTER III.
ARISTOTLE.