Studies in criticism and aesthetics, 1660-1800 : essays in honor of Samuel Holt Monk / edited by Howard Anderson and John S. Shea.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anderson, Howard (Howard Peter)

Contributor:

Monk, Samuel Holt.

Shea, John S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--18th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Aesthetics, British--18th century.

Aesthetics, British.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (419 pages) : ill., port.

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Criticism and aesthetics, 1660-1800.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [1967]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Introduction

When Was Neoclassicism?

Erminia in Minneapolis

Chaucer in Dryden's Fables

Shaftesbury and the Age of Sensibility

Addison on Ornament and Poetic Style

The Watch of Judgment: Relativism and An Essay on Criticism

Sermo or Satire: Pope's Definition of His Art

The Cistern and the Fountain: Art and Reality in Pope and Gray

Thomson's Poetry of Space and Time

The Reach of Art" in Augustan Poetic Theory

Philosophical Language and the Theory of Beauty in the Eighteenth Century

Hume's "Of Criticism

William Warburton as "New Critic

The Naked Science of Language, 1747-1786

Imlac and the Business of a Poet

The Comic Syntax of Tristram Shandy

Reynolds and the Art of Characterization

Gainsborough's "Prospect, Animated Prospect

The Preface to Lyrical Ballads: A Revolution in Dispute

A List of Books, Articles, and Reviews Published

Index

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

Y

Z.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-5694-0

OCLC:

233221347