Essays, speculative and suggestive
Edition: New ed. in one vol.
Publisher: Chapman
Published: 1893
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 444
Subjects: Aesthetics; Criticism; English literature; History and criticism; Evolution
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.