A Study of Selected English Critical Terms from 1650-1800: A ConstellationA Study of Selected English Critical Terms from 1650 to 1800: A Constellation is a lexicographical record of the usage of twenty-two words, terms and concepts in the critical literature of the Restoration and eighteenth century. These twenty-two terms form a constellation or cluster because of a certain predictability in the critical vocabulary and the associations generated from the use of an imprecise nomenclature. This stylization accounts for the imprecision in the use of specific words, and the study indicates the pluri-signative nature of many of the terms used. |
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Addison admiration Aeneis agreeable Albion and Albanius Alexander Annus Mirabilis Aristotle association Bailey beauty Benevolence called character composition conception copy Critical Essays degree delight discerning Discourse Dissertations Moral Dramatic Poesy Dryden effect Elements of Criticism emotions English Language Essay of Dramatic Essay on Criticism Essay on Genius Essay on Original Essay on Taste Evening's Love excellence expression faculty fancy Gerard Gondibert Harmony Harry Beaumont Humour Hutcheson ideas Iliad images imitation invention John Johnson judge judgment kind Lord Kames manner memory Moral and Critical Nathan never numbers objects Observations Original Genius Ovid Painting passions perception perfect person Philosophical Enquiry Pitsligo Pleasures of Imagination Plutarch poem poet poetical Poetry Pope Preface Principles of Taste produce proper propriety qualities reason resemblance Samuel Scott-Saintsbury sense sensibility sentiment Shakespeare soul species sublime things Thomas thought tion Troilus and Cressida truth Virgil virtue William William Wycherley words writing