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An Abridgment Of Elements Of Criticism by Henry Home Kames. This abridgment, edited by John Frost, presents a compact, classroom-friendly rendition of Kames’s Elements of Criticism, aiming to place a canonical theory of literary judgment within reach of students. The work surveys criticism as a rational science grounded in human nature, and organizes its inquiry into progressive topics such as the Association of Ideas, Emotions and Passions, Beauty, Grandeur and Sublimity, and later sections on Rhetorical devices, Narration, Description, and the Classical Unities. It explains how taste is formed, how feelings influence perception, and how broader principles—order, variety, congruity, and propriety—govern the arts. The abridgment includes editorial apparatus: introductory remarks, study questions, and notes designed to illuminate key ideas while remaining faithful to the source’s spirit. Its stated purpose is educational accessibility: to bring a standard treatise of criticism into common schools, emphasizing practical inquiry into virtue, the arts, and the structure of literary form.
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