Note 26 — Chapter VIII · RHETORIC IN ANCIENT CRITICISM OF POETIC
Reading edition
Quomodo adolescens poetas audire debeat, in the collection generally entitled Moralia. For English translations of the Morals see the preface to F. M. Padelford’s modern translation of this particular essay, Essays on the Study and Use of Poetry by Plutarch and Basil the Great, New York, 1902 (Yale Studies in English, XV). Padelford has added a concise and suggestive introduction on Plutarch’s theory of poetry.