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Author Baumgarten, Alexander Gottlieb, 1714-1762.

Title 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.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1954.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  B2637 .M4 1735a    Available  ---
Description viii, 90 pages, facsimile: 40 pages ; 23 cm
Note Reproduction of the original ed., 1735.
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 89-90.
Contents 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
Subject Aesthetics -- Early works to 1800.
Aesthetics.
Chronological Term Early works to 1800
Genre/Form Poetry.
Poetry.
Added Title Meditationes philosophicae de nonnullis ad poema pertinentibus