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The Use of Poetry in the Training of the Ancient Orator

Published:1952 Issue: Volume:8 Page:1-33
ISSN:0362-1529
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North Helen

Abstract

Thomas Campion in his Observations in the Art of English Poesy remarks: ‘Poesy in all kind of speaking is the chief beginner and maintainer of eloquence, not only helping the ear with the acquaintance of sweet numbers, but also raising the mind to a more high and lofty conceit.’ This comment finds many parallels in treatises on literary criticism and the art of poetry in the English Renaissance, and is singled out for quotation here only because it calls attention to both of the major contributions of poetry to rhetoric, namely assistance in the development of artistic prose (especially when it includes the element of rhythm) and inspiration in the province of Invention.

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Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Subject

Literature and Literary Theory,Philosophy,Religious studies,Visual Arts and Performing Arts

Reference96 articles.

1. Stoic Views of Poetry

2. E.g. the speeches on Helen and Palamedes attributed to Gorgias, Protagoras’ treatment of the myth of Prometheus and Epimetheus in Plato , Protag. 320c–322a, the speech of Prodicus about Heracles at the crossroads ( Xenophon , Mem. 2.1.21–34), the orations ascribed to Antisthenes on Ajax and Odysseus, and the Palamedes of Alcidamas. Mythical eulogy, a theme popular in lyric poetry, proved especially adaptable to the model oration presented by the rhetor for imitation by his pupils.

3. See Vossler Karl , Poetische Theorien in der italienischen Frührenaissance (Berlin 1900) 69.

4. Cicero , Div. 1.116; Suetonius , Gram. 4; Quintilian 1.4.2; Sergius Keil , Gram. Lat. 4.486.15–16; St. Augustine , Confess. 1.13. See Aelius Aristides, 32.21 and 32 (Keil) for the extent to which his grammaticus, Alexander of Cotiaion, was devoted to poetry.

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