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CONTENTS.
ESSAY on POETRY and MUSIC,
as they affect the Mind.
PART Ι.
POETRY confidered with respect to its MATTER
or SUBJECT.
CHAP. I. Of the end of Poetical Compofition.
SECT.
1. Of Imitation. Is Music an Imitative
Art?
113
2. How are the pleasures we derive from
Music to be accounted for? 137
3. Conjectures on some peculiarities of
National Music.
CHAP. VII. Of Sympathy.
PART II.
Of the LANGUAGE of POETRY.
Page 164
181
CHAP. I. Of Poetical Language, confidered as
fignificant.
193
SECT. 1. An idea of Natural Language. ibid.
2. Natural language is improved in Poetry
by the use of Poetical words.
212
3. Natural Language is improved in Poetry,
by means of Tropes and Figures. 233
CHAP. II. Of the Sound of Poelical Language. 271
ESSAY on LAUGHTER and LUDI-
CROUS COMPOSITION.
CHAP. I. Introduction. The Subject proposed.
Opinions of Philosophers, -I. Ari-
stotle. II. Hobbes.-III. Hutchefon.
-IV. Akenside.
4
297
CHAP.
CHAP. II. Laughter seems to arise from the view
of things incongruous united in the
Same assemblage: I. By Juxta-
pofition; II. As Cause and Effect;
III. By Comparison founded on Simi-
litude; or, IV. United so as to ex-
hibit an opposition of Meanness and
Dignity. Page 318
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, 1.Moral Disapprobation,
2. Indignation or Disgust, 3. Pity;
or, 4. Fear; III. Influence of Good-
breeding upon Laughter; IV. Of
Similitudes, as connected with this
Subject; V. Recapitulation. 384
IV. An attempt to account for the supe-
riority of the moderns in Ludicrous
Writing.
421
REMARKS on the Usefulness of CLAS-
SICAL LEARNING.
453
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