Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Coments xiii
3. The Image- Thinkers 1
4. Plato on Poetry 3
5. Mimesis 20
6. Poetry as Preserved Communication 36
7. The Homeric Encyclopedia1 61
8. Epic as Record versus Epic as Narrative 87
9. Hesiod on Poetry 97
10. The Oral Sources of the Hellenic Intelligence 115
11. The Homeric State of Mind 134
12. The Psychology of the Poetic Performance 145
13. The Content and Quality of the Poetised Statement 165
14. The Necessity Of Platonism 195
15. Psyche or the Separation of the Knower from the Known 197
16. The Recognition of the Known as 0 bject 215
17. Poetry as Opinion 234
18. The Origin of the Theory of Forms 254
19. 'The Supreme Music is Philosophy' 276