Elements of criticism - Kames, Henry Home 1696-1782 (Liberty Fund, 2005)
Includes bibliographical references and index
v. 1: Introduction -- Perceptions and ideas in the main -- Emotions and passions: Part 1: Causes unfolded of the emotions and passions: Sec. 1: Differences between emotions and passions; Causes that are the most common and the most general; Passion considered as productive of action -- Sec. 2: Power of sounds to raise emotions and passions -- Sec. 3: Causes of the emotions of joy and sorrow -- Sec. 4: Sympathetic emotion of virtue, and its cause -- Sec. 5: In many instances one emotion is productive of another. The same of passions -- Sec. 6: Cause of the passions of fear and anger -- Sec. 7: Emotions caused by fiction -- Part 2: Emotions and passions as pleasant and painful, agreeable and disagreeable. Modification of these qualities -- Part 3: Interrupted existence of emotions and passions: their growth and decay -- Part 4: Coexistant emotions and passions -- Part 5: Influence of passion with respect to our perceptions, opinions, and belief --
- Appendix: Methods that nature hath afforded for time and space -- Part 6: Resemblance of emotions in their causes -- Part 7: Final causes of the more frequent emotions and passions -- Beauty -- Grandeur and sublimity -- Motion and force -- Novelty and the unexpected appearance of objects -- Risible objects -- Resemblence and dissimilitude -- Uniformity and variety -- Appendix: Concerning the works of nature, chiefly with respect to uniformity and variety -- Congruity and propriety -- Dignity and grace -- Ridicule -- Wit -- Custom and habit -- External signs fo emotions and passions -- Sentiments -- Language of passiion -- v. 2: Beauty of language: Sec. 1: Beauty of language with respect to sound -- Sec. 2: Beauty of language with respect to signification -- Sec. 3: Beauty of language from a resemblance between sound and signification -- Sec. 4: Versification -- Comparisons -- Figures : Sec. 1: Personification -- Sec. 2: Apostrophe -- Sec. 3: Hyperbole --
- Sec. 4: The means or instrument conceived to be the agent -- Sec. 5: A figure, which among related objects, extends the properties of one to another -- Sec. 6: Metaphor and allegory -- Sec. 7: Figure of speech -- Table 1: Subject expressed figuratively -- Table 2: Attributes expressed figuratively -- Narration and description -- Epic and dramatic compositions -- The three unities -- Gardening and architecture -- Standard of taste -- Appendix: Terms defined or explained