SOURCE: Herrick, Marvin T. Introduction to The Fusion of Horatian and Aristotelian Literary Criticism, 1531-1555, pp. 1-6. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1946.
In the following essay, Herrick states that literary criticism in western Europe is based on the principles of Horace and Aristotle, respectively from the Ars Poetica and Poetics, citing commentaries on the Ars Poetica from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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