Elements of criticism
Features a philosophical work on 'criticism' in English by Kames, which first appeared in 1762. Volume one explores the nature and causes of the emotions and passions. Volume two delineates principles of rhetoric and literary appreciation, ending with a discussion of the formation of a standard of taste. Both volumes include a range of examples.
2 volumes (xxi, 821) : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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v. 1: Introduction
Perceptions and ideas in the main
Emotions and passions: Part 1: Causes unfolded of the emotions and passions: Sec. 1: Differences between emotions and passions; Causes that are the most common and the most general; Passion considered as productive of action
Sec. 2: Power of sounds to raise emotions and passions
Sec. 3: Causes of the emotions of joy and sorrow
Sec. 4: Sympathetic emotion of virtue, and its cause
Sec. 5: In many instances one emotion is productive of another. The same of passions
Sec. 6: Cause of the passions of fear and anger
Sec. 7: Emotions caused by fiction
Part 2: Emotions and passions as pleasant and painful, agreeable and disagreeable. Modification of these qualities
Part 3: Interrupted existence of emotions and passions: their growth and decay
Part 4: Coexistant emotions and passions
Part 5: Influence of passion with respect to our perceptions, opinions, and belief
Appendix: Methods that nature hath afforded for time and space
Part 6: Resemblance of emotions in their causes
Part 7: Final causes of the more frequent emotions and passions
Beauty
Grandeur and sublimity
Motion and force
Novelty and the unexpected appearance of objects
Risible objects
Resemblence and dissimilitude
Uniformity and variety
Appendix: Concerning the works of nature, chiefly with respect to uniformity and variety
Congruity and propriety
Dignity and grace
Ridicule
Wit
Custom and habit
External signs fo emotions and passions
Sentiments
Language of passiion
v. 2: Beauty of language: Sec. 1: Beauty of language with respect to sound
Sec. 2: Beauty of language with respect to signification
Sec. 3: Beauty of language from a resemblance between sound and signification
Sec. 4: Versification
Comparisons
Figures : Sec. 1: Personification
Sec. 2: Apostrophe
Sec. 3: Hyperbole
Sec. 4: The means or instrument conceived to be the agent
Sec. 5: A figure, which among related objects, extends the properties of one to another
Sec. 6: Metaphor and allegory
Sec. 7: Figure of speech
Table 1: Subject expressed figuratively
Table 2: Attributes expressed figuratively
Narration and description
Epic and dramatic compositions
The three unities
Gardening and architecture
Standard of taste
Appendix: Terms defined or explained
Originally published: 6th ed. Edinburgh : J. Bell and W. Creech ; London : T. Cadell and G. Robinson, 1785
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