speculative and suggestive Symonds, John Addington. 1840-1893 creator text enk London New York Smith, Elder C. Scribner's Sons 1907 3d ed. monographic eng

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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. John Addington Symonds. Criticism English literature History and criticism Aesthetics 809.4 SYE 07042493 DLC 761110 20170102134546.0 9619429