Includes bibliographical references (pages 122-124) and index.
Contents
The seventeenth century: the legacy of rhetoric -- The Philosopher as critic: Hobbes's rhetorical criticism -- The rhetorical approach in Dryden -- The eighteenth century: the autonomy of criticism -- A forgotten classic: Hume's "Of the standard of taste" -- Johnson and Hume -- Coleridge and the rhetoric of imagination -- Conclusion.
