ABSTRACT
In "Eighteenth Century British Aesthetics", editor Dabney Townsend has brought together the work of such well-known writers as John Dryden, Joshua Reynolds, David Hume, and Samuel Johnson with the more obscure works of aestheticians such as Uvedale Price, Daniel Webb, John Baillie, and James Harris, whose work is difficult to find, but is nonetheless important, informative, and interesting. These twenty-two selections, accompanied by Dabney Townsend's historical essay on the development of eighteenth century aesthetics, make the history of aesthetics accessible to both students and specialists alike.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter Chapter 1|21 pages
“Introduction” to Charles du Fresnoy, De Arte Graphica
De Arte Graphica Preface of the Translator, with a Parallel, of Poetry and Painting 1695
chapter Chapter 2|16 pages
A Large Account of the Taste in Poetry, and the Causes of the Degeneracy of It 1702
To the Honorable George Granville, Esq;.