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An Abridgment Of Elements Of Criticism - Softcover

Henry Home Kames

 
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An Abridgment Of Elements Of Criticism by Henry Home Kames. This abridged, accessible edition presents Kames’s inquiry into the nature of taste and the principles of the fine arts, arguing that criticism is a rational, teachable science. The work surveys how objects of beauty—through order, novelty, and fit—produce pleasant emotions, and how emotions, memory, language, and custom shape judgments. It is organized into sections on the association of ideas, the powers of emotions and passions, beauty, grandeur and sublimity, motion and novelty, ridicule, wit, custom and habit, the language of passion, and the rules of narrative and description. Throughout, Kames links aesthetic experience to moral development, argues that taste disciplines the heart as well as the intellect, and emphasizes the role of order, congruity, and proportion in the arts. The text blends theory with practical guidance for students and teachers, offering questions for reflection and a framework for judging poetry, painting, architecture, and gardening. This edition preserves the core ideas while making them accessible to modern readers.

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