Essays : on poetry and music

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• CONTENTS
• ESSAY on POETRY and MUSIC, as they affect the Mind.
• PARTⅠ.
• POETRY confidered witb refpect to its MATTER or SUBJECT.
• CHAP. Ⅰ. Of the end of Poetical Compofition. Page = 7
• Ⅱ. Of tbe Standard of Poetical Invention. = 27
• Ⅲ. Poetry exbibits a fyttem of nature fomewbat different from the reality of tbings. = 43
• Ⅳ. Tbe fubject continued. Of Poetical Cbaracters. = 64
• Ⅴ. Furtber Illuftrations. Of Poetical Arrangement. = 88
• Ⅵ. Remarks on Mufic. = 113
• SECT. 1. Of Imilation, Is Mufic an Imitalive Art? = 113
• 2. How are the pleafures we derive from Mufic to be accounted for? = 137
• 3. Conjectures on fome peculiarities of National Mufic. Page = 164
• CHAP. VII. Of Sympatby. = 181
• PART Ⅱ.
• Of tbe LANGUAGE of POETRY.
• CHAP. Ⅰ. Of Poetical Language, confidered as fignificant. = 193
• SECT. 1. An Idea of Natural Language. ibid.
• 2. Natural language is improved in Poetry by tbe ufe of Poetical words. = 212
• 3. Natural Language is improvedin Poetry, by means of Tropes and Figures. = 233
• CHAP. Ⅱ. Of the Sound of Poetical Language. = 271
• ESSAY on LAUGHTER and LUDI-CROUS COMPOSITION.
• CHAP. Ⅰ. Introduction, The Subject propofed. Opinions of Philofopbers, Ⅰ. Art ftotle.-ⅱ Hobbes.-ⅲ. Hutcbefon.-ⅳ. Akenfide. = 297
• CHAP. Ⅱ. Laugbter feems to arife from the view of tbings incongruous united in the fame affemblage : Ⅰ. By Tuxta-pofition ; Ⅱ. As Caufe and Effect ; Ⅲ. By Comparifon founded on Simi-litude ; or, Ⅳ. United fo as to exbibit an oppofition of Meannefs
• and Dignity. Page = 318
• Ⅲ. Limitations of the preceding doctrine Incongruity not Ludicrous,Ⅰ. Wben cuftomary and common ; nor, Ⅱ. Wben it excites any powerful emotion in tbe beholder, as, 1. Moral Difapprcbation, 2. Indignation or Drfguft, 3. Pity ; or, 4. Fear ; Ⅲ. Influe
• nce of Good-breeding upon Laugbter ; Ⅳ. Of Similitudes, as connected witb this fubject ; Ⅴ. Recapitulation. = 384
• Ⅵ. An attempt to account for the fupe-riorcty of the moderns in Ludicrous Writing. = 421
• REMARKS on the Ufefulnefs of CLAS-SICAL LEARNING. = 453