Essays, speculative and suggestive
By: by John Addington Symonds ....
Edition: New ed. In one vol.
Publisher: C. Scribner's sons
Published: 1894
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 444
Subjects: Criticism; English literature; Aesthetics; History and criticism
Table of contents: title: The philosophy of evolution.; title: On the application of evolutionary principles to art and literature.; title: On some principles of criticism.; title: The provinces of the several arts.; title: On the relation of art to science and morality.; title: Realism and idealism.; title: The model.; title: Beauty, composition, expression, characterisation.; title: Caricature, the fantastic, the grotesque.; title: Notes on style.; title: Democratic art. With special reference to Walt Whitman.; title: Landscape.; title: Nature myths and allegories.; title: Is poetry at bottom a criticism of life? A review of Matthew Arnold's selection from Wordsworth.; title: Is music the type or measure of all art?; title: The pathos of the rose in poetry.; title: A comparison of Elizabethan with Victorian poetry.; title: 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.