An edition of Essays
(1890)
Essays, speculative and suggestive
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by John Addington Symonds
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Aesthetics, Criticism, English literature, Evolution, History and criticismShowing 7 featured editions. View all 16 editions?
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Table of Contents
The philosophy of evolution.
On the application of evolutionary principles to art and literature.
On some principles of criticism.
The provinces of the several arts.
On the relation of art to science and morality.
Realism and idealism.
The model.
Beauty, composition, expression, characterisation.
Caricature, the fantastic, the grotesque.
Notes on style.
Democratic art. With special reference to Walt Whitman.
Landscape.
Nature myths and allegories.
Is poetry at bottom a criticism of life? A review of Matthew Arnold's selection from Wordsworth.
Is music the type or measure of all art?
The pathos of the rose in poetry.
A comparison of Elizabethan with Victorian poetry.
Appendix: Darwin's thoughts about God. The limits of knowledge. Notes on theism. The criterion of art. Note on "Realism and idealism." Note on "The model." Priority of thought to language. Colour-sense and language.
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