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C. Scribner's sons
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English
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444

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Aesthetics, Criticism, English literature, Evolution, History and criticism

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1907, J. Murray
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1907, Smith, Elder
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1907, Smith, Elder, & Co., C. Scribner's Sons
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1894, C. Scribner's sons
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1893, Chapman and Hall
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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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Library of Congress
PR5522 .E7 1894

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x p., 1 l., 444 p.
Number of pages
444

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OL25462047M
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cu31924013556851
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17000129, gs17000129
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2437143

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OL61085W

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