Martial and Formal Literary Criticism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9400729 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Keith Preston (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1920 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 340-352 |
| Publication date | 1920-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Classical Philology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-837X • E-ISSN: 1546-072X |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/360306 |
| OpenAlex | W2011379327 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
What constitutes real literary criticism is always debatable, in the case of Martial as much perhaps as anywhere. Martial does not give us the masses of criticism that we find in Horace, nor are his critical ideas systematized as Horace's are. No doubt this is what is meant by Mr. H. E. Butler' when he says in his essay on Martial, "He gives us practically no literary criticism." But Martial, at first sight not a bookish poet, has a surprising amount of informal literary cominent and reflection. AloIIg certain lines he imitated largely, and inmitation is at least the softer side of criticismn. His imitations, collected in special studies and swallowed, if not bolted, in Friedlander's commentary, are a field in themselves. In specific references to Greek and Latin writers as well as to theories of composition Martial also richly repays sifting. On contemporaries he is as uncritical as Pliny; both, for slightly different reasons, must be subject to heavy (liscount. But on the elder writers, and on writing in general, Miartial's views have interest and value, especially for cornparison with Quintilian, Tacitus, and Pliiny. Not only did these three have forensic interests to which their criticism was in soimie degree adapted, but they represented, much nmore directly thaii Martial could, one phase at least of the cultivated or school tradition of the age. Martial, as but slightly interested in oratory, and professedly popular in his appeal, iiight be expected to supply an independent, if not insurgenit, critical position. How far he does so is what we wish to determine
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.12 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2015 (15) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |