Essays : speculative and suggestive /
by Symonds, John Addington.
Material type: BookPublisher: London : New York ; Smith, Elder, C. Scribner's Sons, 1907Edition: 3d ed.Description: xviii, 431 p. ; 21 cm.Subject(s): Criticism | English literature -- History and criticism | Aesthetics
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.
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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.
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