Reflections on poetry; Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten's Meditationes philosophicae de nonnullis ad poema pertinentibus. / Translated, with the original text, an introd., and notes, by Karl Aschenbrenner and William B. Holther.
Poetry as perfected senate discourse -- Poetry as clear and confused representation -- Extensive clarity and determinateness of representation -- The affects and the force of poetic representation -- Imagery and the clarity of poetic representation -- Poem and picture -- Wonder and miracles -- The limits of fiction and the use of description -- The limits of prevision -- The theme and poetic order -- Lucid order and poetic methods -- Brevity and poetic perfection -- Poetic language and the figures of speech -- Pleasure in the perfection of sound -- Metrics and verse -- Poetic imitation -- Vividness and the definition of poetry -- The definition of aesthetics