Studies in Criticism and AestHoward Anderson In this volume nineteen contributors, in as many essays, discuss various aspects of critical and aesthetic development in the late seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries, from the time of Dryden to Wordsworth. This was a period in which traditional lite. |
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Erminia in Minneapolis | 36 |
Chaucer in Drydens Fables | 58 |
Shaftesbury and the Age of Sensibility | 73 |
Addison on Ornament and Poetic Style | 94 |
Relativism and An Essay on Criticism | 128 |
Popes Definition of His Art | 140 |
Humes Of Criticism | 232 |
William Warburton as New Critic | 249 |
The Naked Science of Language 17471786 | 266 |
Imlac and the Business of a Poet | 296 |
The Comic Syntax of Tristram Shandy | 315 |
Reynolds and the Art of Characterization | 332 |
Gainsboroughs Prospect Animated Prospect | 358 |
A Revolution in Dispute | 380 |
Art and Reality in Pope and Gray | 156 |
Thomsons Poetry of Space and Time | 176 |
The Reach of Art in Augustan Poetic Theory | 193 |
Philosophical Language and the Theory of Beauty in the Eighteenth Century | 213 |
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