CONTENT S.

AN ESSAY ON POETRY AND MUSIC,

AS THEY AFFECT THE MIND.

PART I.

POETRY

CONSIDERED WITH RE

SPECT TO ITS MATTER OR SUB-
JECT,

I.

CHAPTER

Of the end of Poetical Compofition,

CHA P. II.

Of the Standard of Poetical invention,

СНАР. IV.

The fubject continued. Of Poetical cha

racters,

Pag.

CHAP. III.

Poetry exhibits a fyftem of nature fomewhat different from the reality of things,

46

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7

8

29

70

CHAP.

CHAP. V.

Further Illuftrations. Of Poetical ar-

rangement,

CHAP. VI.

Remarks on Mufic.

Sect. 1. Of Imitation. Is Mufic an Imi-

tative Art ?

Sect. 2.

How are the pleasures we derive

from Mufic to be accounted

for?

Sect. 3. Conjectures on fome peculiarities

of National Mufic,

PART

II.

OF THE LANGUAGE OF POETRY,

CHAP.

I.

Of Poetical Language, confidered as fig-

nificant,

Sect. 1. An idea of Natural Language,

Sect. 2.
Natural Language is improved in

Poetry, by the ufe of Poetical

Words,

Pag.

95

122

147

176

194

206

207

208

229

Sect.

Sect. 3. Natural Language is improved

in Poetry, by means of Tropes

and Figures,

CHA P. II.

Of Poetical Language, confidered with

refpect to its Sound,

I.

The fubject propofed.

Introduction.

Opinions of Philofophers :-

1. A-

riftotle

II. Hobbes

III. Hut-

chefon

IV. Akenfide,

CHAP.

-

CHA P. II.

Laughter feems to arife from the view

of things incongruous united in the

fame affemblage; I. by juxta-pofition;

II. as caufe and effect; III. by com-

parison founded on fimilitude; or,

İV. united fo as to exhibit an oppo-

fition of meannefs and dignity,

Pag.

251

293

321

344

CHAP.

CHAP.

III.

Limitations of the preceding doctrine.

Incongruity not Ludicrous, I. when

customary and common; nor, II.

when it excites any powerful emotion

in the beholder, as, — Moral Disap-

probation, Indignation or Disgust,

- Pity, or - Fear; III. Influence of

Good-Breeding upon Laughter; IV.

Of Similitudes, as connected with this

fubject; V. Recapitulation,

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CHA P. IV.

An attempt to account for the fuperio-

rity of the Moderns in Ludicrous Wri-

ting,

Pag.

416

456

487