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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
The Character of the Eighteenth Century and the Place of
the Arts in its Culture 		11
The Critical Outlook of the First Half of the Century 14
The Evolution of Taste, 1710-60 24
The Second Half of the Century 39
Conclusion 49
SELECTED TEXTS
THE NEO-CLASSIC TRADITION
ALEXANDER POPE: from An Essay on Criticism 53
LORD SHAFTESBURY: from Characteristics 53
JOSEPH ADDISON: from The Spectator, No. 62 56
CHARLES GILDON: from A Complete Art of Poetry 57
II. THE REVIVAL OF SENTIMENT AND
THE RE-EXAMINATION OF THE
NATURE OF POETRY: POETRY AS
THE EXPRESSION OF PASSION AND
ENTHUSIASM
JOHN DENNIS: from The Advancement and Reforma-
tion of Modern Poetry, Chapters V and VI 		61
ISAAC WATTS: from preface to Horæ Lyricæ 65
EDWARD YOUNG: from On Lyric Poetry 66
EDMUND BURKE: from A Philosophical Enquiry into
the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the
Beautiful 		68

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Publication Information: Book Title: Taste and Criticism in the Eighteenth Century: A Selection of Texts Illustrating the Evolution of Taste and the Development of Critical Theory. Contributors: H. A. Needham - editor. Publisher: George G. Harrap. Place of Publication: London. Publication Year: 1952. Page Number: 7.
    
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