3. Reason over Emotion
Reason the carrier of culture
Static form of reality
Art could never be true
Plato
Objects are copies of forms in ideal realm
Art is copying from a copy
Art threatens social order
4. ARISTOTLE
Form through concrete instances
Pleasure another type of truth
Putting nature in a medium
Ever-changing world
Form
Classify and catalog
What a work is
Art is positive social forces
Formal criticism
7. Sir Francis Bacon
Poetry presents a better world
History, fact and reason tied to
human experiences
Imagination presents a feigned
history
8. Joseph Addison
How literary work affects the reader
Aesthetic effect
Pleasure in Imagination
Secondary Pleasure
Experience of
Ideas
Primary pleasure
Experience of
objects
Art completes
nature
9. Edmund Burke
Human knowledge comes from sensory
experiences
Imagination:
Present images of nature
Combine images
Art is a kind of REcreation
Assessment of art
based on Taste
10. Samuel Johnson
Assessment of fiction based on moral effects
Good art: good message
Bad art: bad message
Novelist must choose noble subjects and
positive morals
Any critic and writer must have the
knowledge of Classical literary tradition
11. Sir Joshua Reynolds
Eternal nature of Things
The purpose of criticism finding
beauties and faults
Sensibility is a collection of
experiences
Imitation is the lowest style of
art
12. William Wordsworth
A poet is a man speaking to man
Language of common speech
Nature is better than culture
Feeling is the central element in
poem
13. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Art values unity of subject and object
Elevates the artist to the status of a
god
Poetry is free from imitative rules
