GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1
PLATO 8
Ion 10
from Republic 16
from Phaedrus 36
from Sophist 38
from Philebus 40
from Cratylus 41
ARISTOTLE 48
from Physics 49
from Metaphysics 51
Poetics 52
from Rhetoric 69
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO 74
from Brutus 75
QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS(HORAE) 78
Art of Poetry 79
STRABO 86
from Geography 87
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS 90
from Dialogue on Oratory 91
PSEUDO-LONGINUS 94
On the Sublime 95
PLUTARCH 119
from How The Young Man Should Study Poetry 120
FLAVIUS PHILOSTRATUS 124
from Lives of the Sophists 125
PLOTINUS 127
from Enneads 128
SAINT AUGUSTINE 140
from On Christian Doctrine 141
ANICUS MANLIUS SEVERINUS BOETHIUS 147
from The Consolation of Philosophy 148
SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS 149
from Summa Theologica 150
DANTE ALIGHIERI 153
from The Banquet 154
from Letter to Can Grande Della Scala 154
GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO 157
from Life of Dante 158
from Genealogy of the Gentile Gods 160
JULIUS CAESAR SCALIGER 168
from Poetics 169
LODOVICO CASTELVETRO 176
from The Poetics of Aristotle Translated and Explained 177
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY 185
An Apology for Poetry 186
GIORDANO BRUNO 207
from Concerning the Cause,the Principle,and the One 208
GIACOPO MAZZONI 215
from On the Defense of the Comedy of Dante 216
TORQUATO TASSO 226
from Discourses on the Heroic Poem 227
SIR FRANCIS BACON 234
from The Advancement of Learning 235
Preface to the Wisdom of the Ancients 236
from The New Organon 238
PIERRE CORNEILLE 244
Of the Three Unities of Action,Time,and Place 245
JOHN DRYDEN 253
An Essay of Dramatic Poesy 254
JOHN LOCKE 281
from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 282
ALEXANDER POPE 297
An Essay on Criticism 298
JOSEPH ADDISON 307
On the Pleasures of the Imagination 308
GIAMBATTISTA VICO 313
from The New Science 314
DAVID HUME 322
Of the Standard of Taste 323
EDMUND BURKE 332
from A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful 333
EDWARD YOUNG 347
from Conjectureson Original Composition 348
SAMUEL JOHNSON 357
Rambler,Number 4:On Fiction 358
from Rasselas 360
from Preface to Shakespeare 361
HENRYHOME,LORD KAMES 369
from Elements of Criticism:Introduction 370
Chapter XXV 372
GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING 378
from Laoco？n 379
DENIS DIDEROT 383
from The Paradox of Acting 384
SIRJOSHUA REYNOLDS 393
from Discourses on Art 394
IMMANUEL KANT 416
from Critique of Judgment 419
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT 441
from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 442
WILLIAM BLAKE 447
from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 448
from Letter to Thomas Butts 448
from Annotations to Reynolds'Discourses 448
from A Descriptive Catalogue 458
from A Vision of the Last Judgment 458
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER 460
from Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man 461
FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL 473
from Critical Fragments(Lyceum Fragments) 474
from Athenaeum Fragments 477
from On Incomprehensibility 480
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH 481
Preface to the Second Edition of Lyrical Ballads 482
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE 493
Shakespeare's Judgment Equal to His Genius 494
from On the Principles of Genial Criticism 497
from Biographia Literaria 501
from Essays on the Principles of Method 508
from The Statesman's Manual 519
from On the Constitution of Church and State 519
WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT 523
from Collected Works 524
JOHN KEATS 534
from Letter to Benjamin Bailey 535
from Letter to George and Thomas Keats 536
from Letter to John Taylor 536
from Letter to Richard Woodhouse 536
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY 537
A Defense of Poetry 538
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL 552
from The Philosophy of Fine Art 553
from The Phenomenology of Mind 561
RALPH WALDO EMERSON 566
from The American Scholar 567
The Poet 570
EDGAR ALLAN POE 580
from The Poetic Principle 581
MATTHEW ARNOLD 586
The Function of Criticism at the Present Time 587
from The Study of Poetry 599
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE 604
from The Salon of 1859 604
KARL MARX and FRIEDRICH ENGELS 607
Manifesto of the Communist Party 608
from The German Ideology 614
from A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy 615
WALTER PATER 617
from Studies in the History of the Renaissance 618