A Defence of Poetry - Part VI
Civil war, the spoils of Asia, and the fatal predominance first of the Macedonian, and then of the Roman arms, were so many symbols of...
A Defence of Poetry - Part IV
The whole objection, however, of the immorality of poetry rests upon a misconception of the manner in which poetry acts to produce the...
Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man - Part III
Letter VI HAVE I gone too far in this portraiture of our times? I do not anticipate this stricture, but rather another—that I have...
Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man - Part I
Letter I BY your permission I lay before you, in a series of letters, the results of my researches upon beauty and art. I am keenly...