GENERAL INTRODUCTION

PLATO

Ion

from Republic

from Phaedrus

from Sophist

from Philebus

from Cratylus

ARISTOTLE

from Physics

from Metaphysics

Poetics

from Rhetoric

MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO

from Brutus

QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS(HORAE)

Art of Poetry

STRABO

from Geography

PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS

from Dialogue on Oratory

PSEUDO-LONGINUS

On the Sublime

PLUTARCH

from How The Young Man Should Study Poetry

FLAVIUS PHILOSTRATUS

from Lives of the Sophists

PLOTINUS

from Enneads

SAINT AUGUSTINE

from On Christian Doctrine

ANICUS MANLIUS SEVERINUS BOETHIUS

from The Consolation of Philosophy

SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS

from Summa Theologica

DANTE ALIGHIERI

from The Banquet

from Letter to Can Grande Della Scala

GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO

from Life of Dante

from Genealogy of the Gentile Gods

JULIUS CAESAR SCALIGER

from Poetics

LODOVICO CASTELVETRO

from The Poetics of Aristotle Translated and Explained

SIR PHILIP SIDNEY

An Apology for Poetry

GIORDANO BRUNO

from Concerning the Cause,the Principle,and the One

GIACOPO MAZZONI

from On the Defense of the Comedy of Dante

TORQUATO TASSO

from Discourses on the Heroic Poem

SIR FRANCIS BACON

from The Advancement of Learning

Preface to the Wisdom of the Ancients

from The New Organon

PIERRE CORNEILLE

Of the Three Unities of Action,Time,and Place

JOHN DRYDEN

An Essay of Dramatic Poesy

JOHN LOCKE

from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

ALEXANDER POPE

An Essay on Criticism

JOSEPH ADDISON

On the Pleasures of the Imagination

GIAMBATTISTA VICO

from The New Science

DAVID HUME

Of the Standard of Taste

EDMUND BURKE

from A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

EDWARD YOUNG

from Conjectureson Original Composition

SAMUEL JOHNSON

Rambler,Number 4:On Fiction

from Rasselas

from Preface to Shakespeare

HENRYHOME,LORD KAMES

from Elements of Criticism:Introduction

Chapter XXV

GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING

from Laoco？n

DENIS DIDEROT

from The Paradox of Acting

SIRJOSHUA REYNOLDS

from Discourses on Art

IMMANUEL KANT

from Critique of Judgment

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

WILLIAM BLAKE

from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

from Letter to Thomas Butts

from Annotations to Reynolds'Discourses

from A Descriptive Catalogue

from A Vision of the Last Judgment

FRIEDRICH SCHILLER

from Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man

FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL

from Critical Fragments(Lyceum Fragments)

from Athenaeum Fragments

from On Incomprehensibility

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

Preface to the Second Edition of Lyrical Ballads

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Shakespeare's Judgment Equal to His Genius

from On the Principles of Genial Criticism

from Biographia Literaria

from Essays on the Principles of Method

from The Statesman's Manual

from On the Constitution of Church and State

WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT

from Collected Works

JOHN KEATS

from Letter to Benjamin Bailey

from Letter to George and Thomas Keats

from Letter to John Taylor

from Letter to Richard Woodhouse

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

A Defense of Poetry

GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL

from The Philosophy of Fine Art

from The Phenomenology of Mind

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

from The American Scholar

The Poet

EDGAR ALLAN POE

from The Poetic Principle

MATTHEW ARNOLD

The Function of Criticism at the Present Time

from The Study of Poetry

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

from The Salon of 1859

KARL MARX and FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Manifesto of the Communist Party

from The German Ideology

from A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy

WALTER PATER

from Studies in the History of the Renaissance