The arts in mind : pioneering texts of a coterie of British men of letters / Ruth Katz and Ruth HaCohen, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Katz, Ruth, 1927-

HaCohen, Ruth.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics, British--18th century.

Aesthetics, British.

Physical Description:

vi, 431 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Transaction Publishers, [2003]

Contents:

from Characteristics / Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury 5

from Inquiry Concerning Beauty, Harmony and Design / Francis Hutcheson 41

from Of the Sister Arts; An Essay (1734) / Hildebrand Jacob 81

from Three Treatises: "On Music, Painting and Poetry" (1774) / James Harris 113

from An Essay on Musical Expression (1753) / Charles Avison 147

from Essay on Poetry and Music as They Affect the Mind (1762) / James Beattie 183

Observations on the Correspondence between Poetry and Music / Daniel Webb 251

from Two Dissertations: 1) On Poetry Considered as an Imitative Art, 2) On the Different Senses of the Word Imitative as Applied to Music by the Antients and by the Moderns, in Aristotle's Treatise of Poetry, Translated with Notes (1789) / Thomas Twining 325

from Of The Nature of that Imitation which Takes Place in What are Called the Imaginative Arts (1795) / Adam Smith 369.

Notes:

Companion vol. to: Tuning the mind.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [423]-432).

ISBN:

076580106X

OCLC:

47892556