This volume contains the most influential essays from this century on current study of rhetoric and literature, demonstrating the rich variety of work in this area. For scholars and students in rhetoric, literature, English, and speech communication.

Contents: C. Kallendorf, Introduction. Part I:Antiquity.C.S. Baldwin, Rhetoric in Ancient Criticism of Poetic. G. Williams, Figures of Thought in Roman Poetry: Theoretical Considerations. Part II:Middle Ages.E.R. Curtius, Poetry and Rhetoric. J. Enders, Dramatic Rhetoric and Rhetorical Drama: Orators and Actors. Part III:Renaissance (Including Shakespeare).O.B. Hardison, Jr., Rhetoric, Poetics, and the Theory of Praise. C. Kallendorf,King Lear and the Figures of Speech. Part IV:Seventeenth Century.M.W. Croll, Attic Prose: Lipsius, Montaigne, Bacon. T.O. Sloane, The Disintegration of Humanist Rhetoric. Part V:Eighteenth Century.C.A. Beaumont, Swift's Rhetoric in "A Modest Proposal." G. McClish, Henry Fielding, the Novel, and Classical Legal Rhetoric. Part VI:Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.B. Vickers, Rhetoric and the Modern Novel. K. Burke, The Range of Rhetoric.