Introduction: Aesthetics in the Eighteenth Century

Chapter 1
John Dryden: "Introduction" to Charles du Fresnoy, De Arte Graphica (1695)

Chapter 2
John Dennis: A Large Account of the Taste in Poetry, and the Causes of the Degeneracy of It (1702)

Chapter 3
Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury: Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711)

Chapter 4
Joseph Addison: The Spectator (1712)

Chapter 5
Francis Hutcheson: Reflection on Laughter (1725)
An Inquiry Into The Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (1725)

Chapter 6
James Harris: Three Treatises (1744)

Chapter 7
John Baillie: An Essay on the Sublime (1744)

Chapter 8
Samuel Johnson: The Rambler (1751)

Chapter 9
William Hogarth: Analysis of Beauty, Written with a View of Fixing the Fluctuating Ideas of Taste (1753)

Chapter 10
David Hume: Of the Delicacy of Taste and Passion (1742)
Of Tragedy (1757)
Of the Standard of Taste (1757)

Chapter 11
Edmund Burke: A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757/1759)

Chapter 12
Alexander Gerard: An Essay on Taste (1759)

Chapter 13
Joseph Priestly: A Course of Lectures on Oratory and Criticism (1759/1777)

Chapter 14
Daniel Webb: An Inquiry into the Beauties of Painting and into the Merits of the Most Celebrated Painters, Ancient and Modern (1760)

Chapter 15
Henry Home, Lord Kames: Elements of Criticism (1762)

Chapter 16
Sir Joshua Reynolds: The Idler, No. 76, 79, 82 (1757)
Discourses on Art (1776)

Chapter 17
James Beattie: Essays on Poetry and Music, as They Affect the Mind (1762)

Chapter 18
Hugh Blair: Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres (1783)

Chapter 19
Archibald Alison: Essay on the Nature and Principles of Taste (1790)

Chapter 20
William Gilpin: Three Essays (1791)

Chapter 21
Uvedale Price: An Essay on the Picturesque as Compared with the Sublime and Beautiful (1794)

Chapter 22
Adam Smith: Of the Nature of that Imitation which Takes Place in What are Called the Imitative Arts ((1795)

Index