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Author Nick Names Works Influenced by Remarks
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1.Broad Physique
2.Hellonic Moses
Socrates, Heraclitus,
Plato (428 BC - 3.The most celebrated The Republic , Laws, Theory of
1 Pythagoras,
348 BC) disciple of Socrates Phaedrus, Dialogues Ideas
Parmenides
4.Christianity is Platonism
for the people

The Republic - Written in form of Question - answers by a number of Interlocutors

1. Ideas are the Ultimate Reality
2. Art mould character nor to promote the well being of the state
3. The Art is twice removed from reality because it imitate things.
4. Plato’s whole system of philosophy is the Theory of Ideas
Poetry :
1. Poetry more to condemn than to approve (Twin Standards)
2. Poetry cannot taken the philosophy- it cannot create a better citizen or state
3. No poets in the ideal commonwealth in The Republic
4. Poetry appeals to the emotions rather than the reason
5. Poetry lacks concern with morality
6. A poet is a good artist only in so far as he is good teacher
Drama :

Sagyre, The Mind, The Theatre Theory of

Aristotle Theorist Catharsis
Horace
Quintilian
Longinus
Dante
Mimetic Theory
Pragmatic Theories
Philip Sidney
John Dryden
Samuel Johnson
S.T. Coleridge
Matthew Arnold
T.S. Eliot
Moralistic Approach
Psychological
Approach
Archetypal
Approach
Sociological
Approach
Formalistic
Approach
Feminist Criticism
Marxist Criticism
New Historicism
Eco Criticism
Post-Colonial
Criticism