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Aarsleff , Hans, 35Addison, Joseph, 6, 19, 20, 23, 25, 78, 115Adorno, Th eodor, 124Akenside, Mark, 60

Pleasures of the Imagination, 7, 25, 101, 106, 114–19

Arbuckle, James 105Arendt, Hannah, 125, 159Aristotle, 15, 50, 51, 65, 85, 96, 100, 155,

161arts, 18, 43–4, 46, 47–9, 99association of ideas, 59–61, 149authors, 95–7, 98–9

see also poets

Balinese, the, 59ballads, 122, 124

Lyrical Ballads, 148, 149Preface, 25, 125, 140, 146, 149–50

bards, 52, 146–7Batteux, Abbé, 128Bayle, Pierre, 106–7, 118, 119Beattie, James, 29, 39–40, 41

Th e Minstrel, 121Th eory of Language, 32

belief, 144–5belles lettres, 8–9, 45, 55, 127–30, 140

Smith on, 17, 44, 53, 127, 128, 137benevolence, 80, 81, 82 86, 111–12, 130Bennington, Geoff , 31Berkeley, George, 101Berry, Christopher, xi, 6Bible, 12, 35Blacklock, Th omas, 130Blair, Hugh, 12, 15, 29, 32, 37, 54, 59, 123,

124, 128, 142blank verse, 25

Boyson, Rowan, xi, 7Brooke, Christopher, 89–90, 91–2Browne, Th omas, 93Bunyan, John, 19Burke, Edmund, 154Burnet, James, Lord Monboddo, 29, 40–1Burton, Robert, 93Butler, Joseph, 80, 82–3, 84, 86Butterfi eld, Herbert, 98

Calvinism, 80Campbell, George, 9, 61, 140, 145

Th e Philosophy of Rhetoric, 85–6, 147–8Carboni, Pierre, xi, 8–9, 121Carey, Daniel, 911Caron, Philippe, 127Cassirer, Ernst, 90Cavendish, Charles, 63Chandler, James, 123Chinese, 38, 40Clare, John, 121class distinction, 107–8Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 26, 149, 155, 164,

167Collier, Jeremy, 136comedy, 18, 97, 98, 99 103common sense, 114compassion, see pityCondillac, Etienne Bonnot de, 13, 29, 30–1,

33–7, 38–9Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge,

11–12Connell, Phillip, xi, 6Coryat, Th omas, 96Cowley, Abraham, 24, 25, 26, 65Cowper, William, 101Crane, R. S., 142–3

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Crawford, Robert, 17creativity, 8, 43, 45, 47, 49, 51, 52, 54, 57,

102Critical Review, 17criticism, 15–19, 97, 98

literary, 4, 142, 147, 151–2Davenant and Hobbes, 64–74Johnson, 15–27Pope, 24, 50

cultural relativism, 91

Damrosch, Leo, 106Davenant, William, 63–74, 99

Gondibert, 6, 64–74de Man, Paul, 31de Staël, Mme, 46, 55Denina, Carlo, 46Derrida, Jacques, 31, 37dialogue, 5, 7, 89–90, 95–6, 99, 101–2, 103Dick, Alexander, 3, 149Diderot, Denis, 13, 37Dix, Robin, 118Donne, John, 23, 26drama, 22, 50, 70–1, 96, 99–100, 102–3,

136see also tragedy

Dryden, John, 22, 24, 26, 99Don Sebastian, 93–4

Dubos, Jean–Baptiste, 79, 83duelling, 72, 111, 112Duncan, Ian, 121–2, 125, 144, 152

Edinburgh Society, 17Edwards, Th omas, 110empiricism, 15, 21, 32English language, 40, 99Enlightenment, 1, 6, 12–13, 91, 121–5, 127,

139historiography, 3, 122–5Scottish, 5–6, 8, 9, 37–42, 81, 87, 121–5,

127, 138, 139–42ennui, 79enthusiasm, 9, 112–13, 118, 124, 125, 133,

154–5, 158, 165–6Epicureanism, 75, 77, 81, 90, 162–3, 166–7epistemology, 3, 4, 31Esprit, Jacques, 77ethics, 106–8ethnography, 59

fanaticism, 154, 155–6, 160, 163, 164–5Ferguson, Adam, 2, 9, 12, 145, 146–7

An Essay on the History of Civil Society, 5, 13, 44–57, 140, 146

Fielding, HenryTom Jones, 17

Fish, Stanley, 54Fohrmann, Jürgen, 47French Académie, 127French language, 35French Revolution, 9, 153–4, 155, 158, 165

Gassendi, Pierre, 63Geertz, Cliff ord, 59genius, 49–50, 145, 152, 154genre, 123Gerard, Alexander, 17, 20 gesture (language of action), 11–12, 33–4,

35, 41Goldsmith, Oliver, 26government, 16

see also politicsgrammar, 39, 44, 48, 52, 147Grant, Alexander, 129Gray, Th omas, 26

`Elegy in a Country Churchyard’, 22, 24`Sonnet on the Death of Richard West’,

151Greek, 35, 38, 40, 41–2, 43, 48Griffi ths, Ralph, 17Gusdorf, Georges, 1

Hadot, Pierre, 91Harris, James, 29, 41

Hermes, 39Th ree Treatises, 101–2

Hegel, G. W. F., 167Herder, Johann Gottfried, 12, 56, 154Hickey, Alison, 159historicism, 3–4, 5, 41, 55history, 44–7, 57, 59

Enlightenment, 3, 122–5Hobbes, Th omas, 6, 60, 63–74, 106

Answer to Gondibert, 64, 66–71Human Nature, 77, 82Leviathan, 63, 64, 66, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74,

112frontispiece, 69, 70, 73

Hölderlin, F., 8

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Home, John, 130Homer, 15, 50, 51, 94, 123Horace, 50, 90, 94–5, 96, 100Horkheimer, Max, 124Howell, W. S., 128Hudson, Nicholas, xi, 4, 12Hughes, Peter, 3human nature / humanity / humankind,

1–3, 7–9, 41–2, 61, 146, 147–8, 149–50

and language, 98–101, 103 and morality, 153–6, 157–9, 161see also ‘science of man’

humanism, 9, 66Hume, David, 22, 60–1, 75, 83, 148

Of the Standard of Taste, 15, 19Of Tragedy, 83Treatise of Human Nature, 9, 141–2,

143–6, 149Hutcheson, Francis, 79, 80, 83, 105, 130

Essay of the Nature and Conduct ..., 81An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas

of Beauty and Virtue, 129, 143–5

imagination, 2, 3, 7, 25, 64, 67, 129, 143, 150

and morality, 105–19and sympathy, 59–61

Jaff ro, Laurent, 92, 93Jarvis, Simon, 4Johnson, Samuel, 4, 15–27

Idler, 18Th e Lives of the Most Eminent English

Poets, 16, 23–7Preface to Shakespeare, 16, 19–22, 23,

25, 26Rambler, 16–19, 22, 27Rasselas, 18–19, 26

Jones, Tom, xi, 4–5, 12, 92Jonson, Ben, 65

Kahn, Victoria, 67Kames, Henry Home, Lord, 20

Elements of Criticism, 15, 19, 128–9Essays on the Principles of Morality ...,

83–5Kant, Immanuel, 8, 9, 125, 153–9, 160–1,

164–6

‘Apocalyptic Tone’, 165–6Th e Confl ict of the Faculties, 156Th e Contest of the Faculties, 160–1, 165Critique of Judgement, 153–4

Klein, Lawrence, 94knowledge, 1, 122, 141–2, 160–1

and literature, 57poetry, 3–5, 9, 11–13, 18–19, 35, 122,

136, 140

La Rochefoucauld, 77, 96, 106La Volpa, Anthony, 163Langan, Celeste, 162language, 2, 3, 4, 147–52, 162

of action, 11–12, 33–4, 35, 37–8, 41common, 140and literature, 56origin and development, 12–13, 29–40,

59–60philosophical, 30–3, 37, 103, 144and pleasure, 148, 149and poetry, 23–6, 31, 33, 35–7, 41,

98–9, 148–52prosody, 4–5, 29–42sound, 147see also oratory; rhetoric; speech

languages, 30, 34–5, 38, 39, 40–2ancient, 13, 40, 59

Latin, 35, 38, 40, 41–2, 43, 48, 63Law, William, 136Leavis, F. R., 27letters see belles-lettres; literatureLifschitz, Avi, xi, 4literature, 3, 4, 5, 8–9, 146–7, 149, 152

historiography, 44–7, 55–7, 98Romantic, 51, 140–1school for, 44–57see also belles-lettres; criticism, literary;

drama; poetryLocke, John, 21–2, 31, 83, 91, 97

Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 116, 118

Lowth, Robert, 11, 12Lucretius, 76–7, 78, 87, 133Lupton, Christina, 3Luther, Martin, 154, 163luxury, 114

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Malebranche, Nicolas, 7, 105Mandeville, Bernard, 7, 78, 81, 106 114

Fable of the Bees, 107–12Marcus Aurelius, 91, 92, 115Marsh, Robert, 100, 102Marx, Karl, 162, 167Maurer, Christian, xi, 6, 92Mayer, Roland, 94McLane, Maureen, xii, 3, 8. 149, 150Mee, John, 163melody, 40, 41metaphor, 31, 59–60Michaels, Johann David, 12Millar, Andrew, 128Milton, John, 19, 25, 26, 130, 137

Paradise Lost, 23, 25, 163mimesis, 20, 74, 100misery, 75–9, 81–7modernity, 1, 2, 13, 122, 146, 152Monboddo, James Burnett, Lord, 29, 40–1Monro, Hector, 110Montaigne, Michel de, 96, 105, 107Montesquieue, 91Monthly Review, 17moral philosophy, 75–6, 79, 80–3, 122, 129,

139–41morality

Hume on, 83–5and imagination, 105–19Kant, 157–8, 161Wordsworth on, 150–1

Muentzer, Th omas, 154, 163mysticism, 93, 154, 155, 160, 165–6

nature, 2, 23, 67, 112, 116–17, 131–4, 135–6, 138, 166

Needler, Henry, 101neo-classicism, 6, 12, 15, 27, 57, 64, 102Newton, Isaac, 1, 131novels, 17

oratory, 50, 52–4, 56, 147Oriental style, 38originality, 22, 24, 26, 48, 53Ossian poems, 59, 121, 130, 147

Packham, Catherine, xii, 9, 121, 125Parker, Fred, 106

passions, 18, 20, 75, 80–7, 131, 133–4, 136, 137–8, 144–5, 159

Peacock, Th omas Love, 122, 123Pell, John, 63Perkins, David, 47philosophy, 27, 44, 61, 68, 94–5, 119,

140–4, 160–1empiricism, 15, 31, 32language, 30–3, 37, 103, 144and poetry, 2–3, 6, 65, 89–91, 95–8,

102–3, 132, 155, 165–7role, 97see also moral philosophy; Stoicism

pity, 6, 75–87Plato, 97, 102, 132, 155, 156, 160, 161,

164–5pleasure, 20, 27, 43, 103, 143

in language, 148, 149and others’ misery, 75–9, 81–3, 85–7

Pocock, John, 55, 154poetology, 8, 123–4, 125poetry, 7–10

bardic, 146and Enlightenment, 121–5function /rôle, 3, 45–7, 66, 137genre, 21heroic, 65–9, 74and knowledge, 3–5, 9, 11–13, 18–19,

35, 122, 136, 140language, 23–6, 31, 33, 35–7, 41, 51–3,

98–9, 146–52lyric, 18and morality, 87and nature, 2, 6–7, 131–8origin, 12and philosophy, 2–3, 6, 65, 89–91, 95–8,

102–3, 132, 155, 165–7power, 22rules, 12, 36, 49–52, 54, 57, 123and science of man, 139–51, 166and self-hood, 93–5and social self, 5–7, 59–61see also prosody

poets, 2, 18–19, 51–5, 123, 144–5bards, 52, 146–7Shaft esbury on, 89, 93–5, 96, 98–9, 119

politeness, 101,108–11political economy, 139, 143

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Pope, Alexander, 18, 23, 26, 65, 106An Essay on Criticism, 24, 50Th e Rape of the Lock, 22

Prince, Michael, 114Prior, Mathew, 25, 105Probyn, Clive, 101prophecy, 156prosody, 4–5, 29–42prostitution, 109, 110psychology, 4, 27, 75–6, 80–1, 83, 85–6,

108Pythagoras, 160

Rancière, Jacques, 3reason, 3, 91, 153, 155

and belief, 143–5religion, 66–7, 97, 98Revolution, French 9, 153–4, 155, 158, 165rhetoric, 50, 52, 57, 60, 64, 67, 73–4, 102,

140–3, 148–51rhyme, 25, 99rhythm, 40Rollin, Charles, 127, 128Romanticism, 4, 8, 9, 51, 122, 123, 140–1Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 11, 12, 13, 31, 85Rowe, Nicholas, 25, 27, 99rules, literary, 4, 13, 16, 17–18, 19, 31

for poetry 12, 36, 49–52, 54, 57

satire, 18, 97–8, 101, 109–10savages, 2, 8, 49, 59, 123scepticism, 4, 15, 17, 19, 23, 66, 106, 114,

145Schlegel, Friedrich, 55Schlosser, J. G., 160, 165science

and literature, 3, 27‘science of man’, 1–3, 7–9, 60, 125, 129, 130,

137, 138, 141–51and poetry, 139–51, 166

Scott, Walter, 122, 124–5Scottish Enlightenment, 5–6, 8, 9, 37–42,

81, 87, 121–5, 127, 138, 139–42secrecy, 160–1

self, 93–5, 166-correction, 93–8-division, 89–92, 93, 95, 96–7-interest / love, 75, 78–84, 87-preservation, 108social, 5–7, 59–61, 90–3

selfi sh hypothesis, 6, 75–6, 79, 80, 83, 84, 85, 87, 96

selfi shness, 80–1, 85, 86, 100, 112sensibility, 150–1Shaft esbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd

Earl, 7, 60–1, 80, 81, 89–103, 106, 111–14, 137–8

Askemata, 92, 93Th e Characteristics, 91, 95, 98, 112–13,

131–3, 138Inquiry Concerning Virtue and Merit,

90, 138Th e Moralists, 133–4Second Characters, 99–100Soliloquy, or Advice to an Author, 95–8,

101, 113–14Shakespeare, William, 17

Johnson on, 16, 19–22, 23, 25, 26Sheffi eld, John (Lord Mulgrave), 89Shelley, Percy, 123, 124Sheridan, Th omas, 33Simpson, David, 163Siskin, Cliff ord, 122, 125, 149Skinner, Quentin, 6, 64Smith, Adam, 2, 8, 9, 43–4, 61, 83, 130, 143

Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, 17, 53, 127, 128, 142, 148–9, 152

Th e Th eory of Moral Sentiments, 32, 130, 137, 138

Wealth of Nations, 139, 142social life, 2, 8, 75social nature / sociability, 5–6, 30, 61, 81–2,

85–7, 98–9, 103, 113, 151social self, 5–7, 59–61, 90–3society, 54–5, 60, 61, 65, 84, 108–10,

123–4, 149, 150stages of development, 146

Socrates, 96, 97, 98Sparta, 55specialization, 2, 3, 9, 90, 95–6, 125, 140,

142, 147, 150–2Spectator, 17, 23, 78, 118

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speech, 2, 5, 11–12, 34, 35–6, 38, 128accent, 32, 33, 34, 35, 38, 40oratory, 50, 52–4, 56, 147

St Clair, William, 123Stewart, Dugald, 43–4, 128Stewart, Robert, 129Stirling, James, 130Stoicism, 7, 80, 87, 89–92, 95, 99, 102, 167

neo–, 94style, 19, 36–8, 99–100, 151sublimity, 25, 115, 142Swift , Jonathan, 91Swift , Simon, xii, 9–10, 121, 124, 125sympathy, 6, 61, 83, 84, 85–7, 137–8, 154,

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taste, 6, 15, 17, 19–20, 23, 43–4, 89, 113, 128, 142

theatre, 35, 82, 136Th ompson, E. P., 124Th omson, James, 127, 129–38

Th e Seasons, 8–9, 22, 23, 27, 130–8Tilmouth, Christopher, xii, 7, 60, 61Tindal, Matthew, 101Toscano, Alberto, 159tragedy, 20, 75, 78–9, 82–3, 85–7Trapp, Joseph

Lectures on Poetry, 78–9Turnbull, George, 82, 85

Uhlig, Stefan, xii, 5, 12unities, classical, 17, 20, 148utopianism, 155–7, 165, 166

Valenza, Robin, 3Vico, G. B., 2, 3virtue, 55, 80 82, 91, 108–9, 110–11,

114–16, 133, 134, 138civic, 46, 65, 66

Waller, Edmund, 24Warner, William, 122, 125Warton, Joseph, 15Warton, Th omas

History of English Poetry, 47, 60Wellek, René, 15, 27, 47Wood, Robert, 121–2, 124Wordsworth, William, 4, 8, 51, 53, 149 –52,

154–7, 165–6‘Essay on Morals’, 150Th e Excursion, 166, 167

Preface, 157‘Th e Ruined Cottage’, 153, 155, 157,

159–60, 161–4, 167‘Th e Solitary’, 166

Lyrical Ballads, 148, 149‘Essay, Supplementary to the Preface’,

52Preface, 25, 125, 140, 146, 149–50

Prelude, 9, 139–40, 155

writing, 3, 4, 31, 44, 98, 142, 145