The Beautiful, the Sublime, and the Picturesque [Book Review]

Review of Metaphysics 11 (3):514-515 (1958)
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This comprehensive survey is particularly valuable for the intelligence and originality with which it approaches aesthetic speculation. The author permits the original texts to serve as the basis of his study, and exhibits each of the major aesthetic systems of the period as an integral whole involving logical and psychological principles. Each of the writers chosen from the tradition is criticized in his own terms, without detracting from the originality of his contribution to the body of aesthetic theory. A few of the lesser-known aestheticians of the 18th century here receive fuller discussion than has previously been available.--J. F. D.

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