Criticism, taste, and aesthetics

6 books

Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich SchillerFriedrich Schiller · 1795A 1795 collection of philosophical essays by Friedrich Schiller on aesthetics, including his letters on the aesthetic education of man and essays on beauty, the sublime, tragedy, grace, dignity, and art's moral purpose.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Biographia LiterariaSamuel Taylor Coleridge · 1817An 1817 autobiographical and philosophical work by Samuel Taylor Coleridge mixing memoir with literary criticism, discussing poetry, imagination, Wordsworth's poetics, and philosophical influences from Aristotle to Kant and Schelling.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Essays and LecturesOscar Wilde · 1891A collected edition of Oscar Wilde's essays and lectures, published in 1913, gathering his writings on art, criticism, and decoration, including "The Rise of Historical Criticism" and his lectures to art students, along with his prose poems.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

IntentionsOscar Wilde · 1891A collection of four essays by Oscar Wilde, presented partly as dialogues, on art, criticism, and aesthetics, arguing playfully that art matters more than nature and reality.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the ComicHenri Bergson · 1900A philosophical essay by French philosopher Henri Bergson, first published in 1900, examining what makes things comic and why people laugh. It explores the comic in forms, situations, words, and character, arguing that laughter has a social meaning and function.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and CriticismT. S. Eliot · 1920A 1920 collection of critical essays by T. S. Eliot on poetry and literary criticism, discussing topics such as the role of the critic, literary tradition, and the state of English criticism, drawing on writers like Matthew Arnold.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية