أصول النقد الأدبي و مباحثه بين اليونان و الرومان

Abstract EN

Many students think that the Arab Literary Criticism was originated and based on the mature and comprehensive Greek literary criticism.

Moreever, some_Taha Hussein and his followers-claim that the Arab literary criticism is dependent on the Greek criticism.

As I see it, the claim that the Arab criticism got a lot of its origins from the Greek criticism ,needs researching into the stages of development of the Greek criticism, finding out its facets, tracing what the Roman critics had added to it, so as the student can easily denounce that claim as soon as he / she gets acquainted with the historical origin of Arab literary criticism and its development, away from the Greek critical origins.

Knowledge of the different circumstances of the origins of both criticisms-Greek criticism and Arab criticism-and realizing the differences between them in the subjects, subject matter, and the ways of approaching them, will enable the student to acknowledge the originality of the Arab critic's views, to know their criticisms and their partial notes which reflect their direct and real approach, their comments that are indicative of contemplation and realization of the bases of writing poetry, their continuous attempts to improve them which shows cooperation, and originality of their views and criticisms.

As many of contemporary students still repeat these claims without referring to the Greek criticism, studying its subjects and trends, I have decided to go through this research.

I traced the stages of development of the Greek criticism, reviewed Plato's views, the efforts and works of Aristotle, and all what he had said about literary criticism.

Finally, I reviewed the efforts of the Romans to preserve the Greek criticism, and the subjects which they added that were closely related to their life.