Landmark Essays on Rhetoric and Literature: Volume 16 Book

	Introduction
	Antiquity
1	Rhetoric in Ancient Criticism of Poetic	3
2	Figures of Thought in Roman Poetry: Theoretical Considerations	19
	Middle Ages
3	Poetry and Rhetoric	41
4	Dramatic Rhetoric and Rhetorical Drama: Orators and Actors	63
	Renaissance (Including Shakespeare)
5	Rhetoric, Poetics, and the Theory of Praise	79
6	King Lear and the Figures of Speech	101
	Seventeenth Century
7	Attic Prose: Lipsius, Montaigne, Bacon	119
8	The Disintegration of Humanist Rhetoric	147
	Eighteenth Century
9	Swift's Rhetoric in "A Modest Proposal"	167
10	Henry Fielding, the Novel, and Classical Legal Rhetoric	189
	Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
11	Rhetoric and the Modern Novel	211
12	The Range of Rhetoric	225
	Bibliography	243
	Index	247