Symonds, John Addington. 1840-1893.
Essays : speculative and suggestive / John Addington Symonds. - 3d ed. - London : New York ; Smith, Elder, C. Scribner's Sons, 1907. - xviii, 431 p. ; 21 cm.
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.
07042493
Criticism.
English literature--History and criticism.
Aesthetics.
809.4 / SYE
Essays : speculative and suggestive / John Addington Symonds. - 3d ed. - London : New York ; Smith, Elder, C. Scribner's Sons, 1907. - xviii, 431 p. ; 21 cm.
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.
07042493
Criticism.
English literature--History and criticism.
Aesthetics.
809.4 / SYE