Erasmus on Literature. His Ratio or 'System' of 1518/1519, Paperback/***

Written more than half a century before Sir Philip Sidney's well-known Apology for Poetry, Erasmus' Ratio or 'System' is an almost lost masterpiece of Renaissance literary theory and interpretive practice, now available for the first time in English in a convenient student edition. Illustrations: 4 b&w illustrations; 4 Illustrations, unspecified Editor(s): Mark Vessey