Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (volume 1, pages 485-570; volume 2, pages 1123-1209).
Summary
A selection of representative writings in literary criticism and aesthetics by 40 critics.
Contents
Vol. 1 : Joseph Addison -- George Farquhar -- John Dennis -- William Congreve -- Isaac Watts -- Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury -- Joseph Trapp -- Alexander Pope -- John Hughes -- Lewis Theobald -- Leonard Welsted -- Francis Hutcheson -- Joseph Spence -- James Thomson -- Edward Young -- John Husbands -- Thomas Blackwell -- Anonymous [attributed to Sir Thomas Hanmer] -- Samuel Say.
Vol. 2 : Samuel Johnson -- Robert Lowth -- Joseph Warton -- Thomas Warton -- David Hume -- Sir Joshua Reynolds -- Henry Home, Lord Kames -- Hugh Blair -- Richard Hurd -- Sir William Jones -- Alexander Gerard -- James Beattie -- George Campbell -- Richard Cumberland -- Henry Mackenzie -- Thomas Twining -- Erasmus Darwin -- Archibald Alison -- William Gilpin -- Walter Whiter -- Alexander Knox.
