Allegory
- Rig Veda (1700-1000 BCE), Hymns to Vāc (on speech and language)
- Macrobius (c. 400), from Commentary on the Dream of Scipio
- Bede (673–735), from Concerning Figures and Tropes (on allegory)
- Ruth Rabbah (600-700), later classic rabbinic midrash (Neusner’s discussion)
- Ibn Rushd (1126–98, aka Averroes), selections (on mimesis and figurative language)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), from Conversations with Eckermann
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), from Biographia Literaria
- Sigmund Freud (1856 – 1939), “Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming” and/or from The Interpretation of Dreams
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