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Aarsleff, Hans, 35
Addison, Joseph, 6, 19, 20, 23, 25, 78, 115
Adorno, Theodor, 124
Akenside, Mark, 60
Pleasures of the Imagination, 7, 25, 101,
106, 11419
Arbuckle, James 105
Arendt, Hannah, 125, 159
Aristotle, 15, 50, 51, 65, 85, 96, 100, 155,
161
arts, 18, 434, 46, 479, 99
association of ideas, 5961, 149
authors, 957, 989
see also poets

Boyson, Rowan, xi, 7

Brooke, Christopher, 8990, 912
Browne, Thomas, 93
Bunyan, John, 19
Burke, Edmund, 154
Burnet, James, Lord Monboddo, 29, 401
Burton, Robert, 93
Butler, Joseph, 80, 823, 84, 86
Butterfield, Herbert, 98
Calvinism, 80
Campbell, George, 9, 61, 140, 145
The Philosophy of Rhetoric, 856, 1478
Carboni, Pierre, xi, 89, 121
Carey, Daniel, 911
Caron, Philippe, 127
Cassirer, Ernst, 90
Cavendish, Charles, 63
Chandler, James, 123
Chinese, 38, 40
Clare, John, 121
class distinction, 1078
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 26, 149, 155, 164,
167
Collier, Jeremy, 136
comedy, 18, 97, 98, 99 103
common sense, 114
compassion, see pity
Condillac, Etienne Bonnot de, 13, 29, 301,
337, 389
Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge,
1112
Connell, Phillip, xi, 6
Coryat, Thomas, 96
Cowley, Abraham, 24, 25, 26, 65
Cowper, William, 101
Crane, R. S., 1423

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Balinese, the, 59
ballads, 122, 124
Lyrical Ballads, 148, 149
Preface, 25, 125, 140, 146, 14950
bards, 52, 1467
Batteux, Abb, 128
Bayle, Pierre, 1067, 118, 119
Beattie, James, 29, 3940, 41
The Minstrel, 121
Theory of Language, 32
belief, 1445
belles lettres, 89, 45, 55, 12730, 140
Smith on, 17, 44, 53, 127, 128, 137
benevolence, 80, 81, 82 86, 11112, 130
Bennington, Geoff, 31
Berkeley, George, 101
Berry, Christopher, xi, 6
Bible, 12, 35
Blacklock, Thomas, 130
Blair, Hugh, 12, 15, 29, 32, 37, 54, 59, 123,
124, 128, 142
blank verse, 25

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Crawford, Robert, 17
creativity, 8, 43, 45, 47, 49, 51, 52, 54, 57,
102
Critical Review, 17
criticism, 1519, 97, 98
literary, 4, 142, 147, 1512
Davenant and Hobbes, 6474
Johnson, 1527
Pope, 24, 50
cultural relativism, 91

fanaticism, 154, 1556, 160, 163, 1645

Ferguson, Adam, 2, 9, 12, 145, 1467
An Essay on the History of Civil Society, 5,
13, 4457, 140, 146
Fielding, Henry
Tom Jones, 17
Fish, Stanley, 54
Fohrmann, Jrgen, 47
French Acadmie, 127
French language, 35
French Revolution, 9, 1534, 155, 158, 165

Damrosch, Leo, 106

Davenant, William, 6374, 99
Gondibert, 6, 6474
de Man, Paul, 31
de Stal, Mme, 46, 55
Denina, Carlo, 46
Derrida, Jacques, 31, 37
dialogue, 5, 7, 8990, 956, 99, 1012, 103
Dick, Alexander, 3, 149
Diderot, Denis, 13, 37
Dix, Robin, 118
Donne, John, 23, 26
drama, 22, 50, 701, 96, 99100, 1023,
136
see also tragedy
Dryden, John, 22, 24, 26, 99
Don Sebastian, 934
Dubos, JeanBaptiste, 79, 83
duelling, 72, 111, 112
Duncan, Ian, 1212, 125, 144, 152

Gassendi, Pierre, 63
Geertz, Clifford, 59
genius, 4950, 145, 152, 154
genre, 123
Gerard, Alexander, 17, 20
gesture (language of action), 1112, 334,
35, 41
Goldsmith, Oliver, 26
government, 16
see also politics
grammar, 39, 44, 48, 52, 147
Grant, Alexander, 129
Gray, Thomas, 26
`Elegy in a Country Churchyard, 22, 24
`Sonnet on the Death of Richard West,
151
Greek, 35, 38, 40, 412, 43, 48
Griffiths, Ralph, 17
Gusdorf, Georges, 1

Edinburgh Society, 17
Edwards, Thomas, 110
empiricism, 15, 21, 32
English language, 40, 99
Enlightenment, 1, 6, 1213, 91, 1215, 127,
139
historiography, 3, 1225
Scottish, 56, 8, 9, 3742, 81, 87, 1215,
127, 138, 13942
ennui, 79
enthusiasm, 9, 11213, 118, 124, 125, 133,
1545, 158, 1656
Epicureanism, 75, 77, 81, 90, 1623, 1667
epistemology, 3, 4, 31
Esprit, Jacques, 77
ethics, 1068
ethnography, 59

Hadot, Pierre, 91
Harris, James, 29, 41
Hermes, 39
Three Treatises, 1012
Hegel, G. W. F., 167
Herder, Johann Gottfried, 12, 56, 154
Hickey, Alison, 159
historicism, 34, 5, 41, 55
history, 447, 57, 59
Enlightenment, 3, 1225
Hobbes, Thomas, 6, 60, 6374, 106
Answer to Gondibert, 64, 6671
Human Nature, 77, 82
Leviathan, 63, 64, 66, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74,
112
frontispiece, 69, 70, 73
Hlderlin, F., 8

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Home, John, 130
Homer, 15, 50, 51, 94, 123
Horace, 50, 90, 945, 96, 100
Horkheimer, Max, 124
Howell, W. S., 128
Hudson, Nicholas, xi, 4, 12
Hughes, Peter, 3
human nature / humanity / humankind,
13, 79, 412, 61, 146, 1478,
14950
and language, 98101, 103
and morality, 1536, 1579, 161
see also science of man
humanism, 9, 66
Hume, David, 22, 601, 75, 83, 148
Of the Standard of Taste, 15, 19
Of Tragedy, 83
Treatise of Human Nature, 9, 1412,
1436, 149
Hutcheson, Francis, 79, 80, 83, 105, 130
Essay of the Nature and Conduct ..., 81
An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas
of Beauty and Virtue, 129, 1435

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Apocalyptic Tone, 1656

The Conflict of the Faculties, 156
The Contest of the Faculties, 1601, 165
Critique of Judgement, 1534
Klein, Lawrence, 94
knowledge, 1, 122, 1412, 1601
and literature, 57
poetry, 35, 9, 1113, 1819, 35, 122,
136, 140
La Rochefoucauld, 77, 96, 106
La Volpa, Anthony, 163
Langan, Celeste, 162
language, 2, 3, 4, 14752, 162
of action, 1112, 334, 35, 378, 41
common, 140
and literature, 56
origin and development, 1213, 2940,
5960
philosophical, 303, 37, 103, 144
and pleasure, 148, 149
and poetry, 236, 31, 33, 357, 41,
989, 14852
prosody, 45, 2942
sound, 147
see also oratory; rhetoric; speech
languages, 30, 345, 38, 39, 402
ancient, 13, 40, 59
Latin, 35, 38, 40, 412, 43, 48, 63
Law, William, 136
Leavis, F. R., 27
letters see belles-lettres; literature
Lifschitz, Avi, xi, 4
literature, 3, 4, 5, 89, 1467, 149, 152
historiography, 447, 557, 98
Romantic, 51, 1401
school for, 4457
see also belles-lettres; criticism, literary;
drama; poetry
Locke, John, 212, 31, 83, 91, 97
Essay Concerning Human Understanding,
116, 118
Lowth, Robert, 11, 12
Lucretius, 767, 78, 87, 133
Lupton, Christina, 3
Luther, Martin, 154, 163
luxury, 114

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imagination, 2, 3, 7, 25, 64, 67, 129, 143,

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and morality, 10519
and sympathy, 5961

Jaffro, Laurent, 92, 93

Jarvis, Simon, 4
Johnson, Samuel, 4, 1527
Idler, 18
The Lives of the Most Eminent English
Poets, 16, 237
Preface to Shakespeare, 16, 1922, 23,
25, 26
Rambler, 1619, 22, 27
Rasselas, 1819, 26
Jones, Tom, xi, 45, 12, 92
Jonson, Ben, 65
Kahn, Victoria, 67
Kames, Henry Home, Lord, 20
Elements of Criticism, 15, 19, 1289
Essays on the Principles of Morality ...,
835
Kant, Immanuel, 8, 9, 125, 1539, 1601,
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Malebranche, Nicolas, 7, 105

Mandeville, Bernard, 7, 78, 81, 106 114
Fable of the Bees, 10712
Marcus Aurelius, 91, 92, 115
Marsh, Robert, 100, 102
Marx, Karl, 162, 167
Maurer, Christian, xi, 6, 92
Mayer, Roland, 94
McLane, Maureen, xii, 3, 8. 149, 150
Mee, John, 163
melody, 40, 41
metaphor, 31, 5960
Michaels, Johann David, 12
Millar, Andrew, 128
Milton, John, 19, 25, 26, 130, 137
Paradise Lost, 23, 25, 163
mimesis, 20, 74, 100
misery, 759, 817
modernity, 1, 2, 13, 122, 146, 152
Monboddo, James Burnett, Lord, 29, 401
Monro, Hector, 110
Montaigne, Michel de, 96, 105, 107
Montesquieue, 91
Monthly Review, 17
moral philosophy, 756, 79, 803, 122, 129,
13941
morality
Hume on, 835
and imagination, 10519
Kant, 1578, 161
Wordsworth on, 1501
Muentzer, Thomas, 154, 163
mysticism, 93, 154, 155, 160, 1656

passions, 18, 20, 75, 807, 131, 1334, 136,

1378, 1445, 159
Peacock, Thomas Love, 122, 123
Pell, John, 63
Perkins, David, 47
philosophy, 27, 44, 61, 68, 945, 119,
1404, 1601
empiricism, 15, 31, 32
language, 303, 37, 103, 144
and poetry, 23, 6, 65, 8991, 958,
1023, 132, 155, 1657
role, 97
see also moral philosophy; Stoicism
pity, 6, 7587
Plato, 97, 102, 132, 155, 156, 160, 161,
1645
pleasure, 20, 27, 43, 103, 143
in language, 148, 149
and others misery, 759, 813, 857
Pocock, John, 55, 154
poetology, 8, 1234, 125
poetry, 710
bardic, 146
and Enlightenment, 1215
function /rle, 3, 457, 66, 137
genre, 21
heroic, 659, 74
and knowledge, 35, 9, 1113, 1819,
35, 122, 136, 140
language, 236, 31, 33, 357, 41, 513,
989, 14652
lyric, 18
and morality, 87
and nature, 2, 67, 1318
origin, 12
and philosophy, 23, 6, 65, 8991, 958,
1023, 132, 155, 1657
power, 22
rules, 12, 36, 4952, 54, 57, 123
and science of man, 13951, 166
and self-hood, 935
and social self, 57, 5961
see also prosody
poets, 2, 1819, 515, 123, 1445
bards, 52, 1467
Shaftesbury on, 89, 935, 96, 989, 119
politeness, 101,10811
political economy, 139, 143

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nature, 2, 23, 67, 112, 11617, 1314,
1356, 138, 166
Needler, Henry, 101
neo-classicism, 6, 12, 15, 27, 57, 64, 102
Newton, Isaac, 1, 131
novels, 17
oratory, 50, 524, 56, 147
Oriental style, 38
originality, 22, 24, 26, 48, 53
Ossian poems, 59, 121, 130, 147
Packham, Catherine, xii, 9, 121, 125
Parker, Fred, 106

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politics 467, 97, 1345
and fanaticism, 1569, 165
and power, 645, 679, 714
see also Revolution
Pope, Alexander, 18, 23, 26, 65, 106
An Essay on Criticism, 24, 50
The Rape of the Lock, 22
Prince, Michael, 114
Prior, Mathew, 25, 105
Probyn, Clive, 101
prophecy, 156
prosody, 45, 2942
prostitution, 109, 110
psychology, 4, 27, 756, 801, 83, 856,
108
Pythagoras, 160
Rancire, Jacques, 3
reason, 3, 91, 153, 155
and belief, 1435
religion, 667, 97, 98
Revolution, French 9, 1534, 155, 158, 165
rhetoric, 50, 52, 57, 60, 64, 67, 734, 102,
1403, 14851
rhyme, 25, 99
rhythm, 40
Rollin, Charles, 127, 128
Romanticism, 4, 8, 9, 51, 122, 123, 1401
Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 11, 12, 13, 31, 85
Rowe, Nicholas, 25, 27, 99
rules, literary, 4, 13, 16, 1718, 19, 31
for poetry 12, 36, 4952, 54, 57

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self, 935, 166

-correction, 938
-division, 8992, 93, 95, 967
-interest / love, 75, 7884, 87
-preservation, 108
social, 57, 5961, 903
selfish hypothesis, 6, 756, 79, 80, 83, 84,
85, 87, 96
selfishness, 801, 85, 86, 100, 112
sensibility, 1501
Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd
Earl, 7, 601, 80, 81, 89103, 106,
11114, 1378
Askemata, 92, 93
The Characteristics, 91, 95, 98, 11213,
1313, 138
Inquiry Concerning Virtue and Merit,
90, 138
The Moralists, 1334
Second Characters, 99100
Soliloquy, or Advice to an Author, 958,
101, 11314
Shakespeare, William, 17
Johnson on, 16, 1922, 23, 25, 26
Sheffield, John (Lord Mulgrave), 89
Shelley, Percy, 123, 124
Sheridan, Thomas, 33
Simpson, David, 163
Siskin, Clifford, 122, 125, 149
Skinner, Quentin, 6, 64
Smith, Adam, 2, 8, 9, 434, 61, 83, 130, 143
Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, 17,
53, 127, 128, 142, 1489, 152
The Theory of Moral Sentiments, 32, 130,
137, 138
Wealth of Nations, 139, 142
social life, 2, 8, 75
social nature / sociability, 56, 30, 61, 812,
857, 989, 103, 113, 151
social self, 57, 5961, 903
society, 545, 60, 61, 65, 84, 10810,
1234, 149, 150
stages of development, 146
Socrates, 96, 97, 98
Sparta, 55
specialization, 2, 3, 9, 90, 956, 125, 140,
142, 147, 1502
Spectator, 17, 23, 78, 118

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satire, 18, 978, 101, 10910

savages, 2, 8, 49, 59, 123
scepticism, 4, 15, 17, 19, 23, 66, 106, 114,
145
Schlegel, Friedrich, 55
Schlosser, J. G., 160, 165
science
and literature, 3, 27
science of man, 13, 79, 60, 125, 129, 130,
137, 138, 14151
and poetry, 13951, 166
Scott, Walter, 122, 1245
Scottish Enlightenment, 56, 8, 9, 3742,
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speech, 2, 5, 1112, 34, 356, 38, 128

accent, 32, 33, 34, 35, 38, 40
oratory, 50, 524, 56, 147
St Clair, William, 123
Stewart, Dugald, 434, 128
Stewart, Robert, 129
Stirling, James, 130
Stoicism, 7, 80, 87, 8992, 95, 99, 102, 167
neo, 94
style, 19, 368, 99100, 151
sublimity, 25, 115, 142
Swift, Jonathan, 91
Swift, Simon, xii, 910, 121, 124, 125
sympathy, 6, 61, 83, 84, 857, 1378, 154,
158
taste, 6, 15, 17, 1920, 23, 434, 89, 113,
128, 142
theatre, 35, 82, 136
Thompson, E. P., 124
Thomson, James, 127, 12938
The Seasons, 89, 22, 23, 27, 1308
Tilmouth, Christopher, xii, 7, 60, 61
Tindal, Matthew, 101
Toscano, Alberto, 159
tragedy, 20, 75, 789, 823, 857
Trapp, Joseph
Lectures on Poetry, 789
Turnbull, George, 82, 85

Uhlig, Stefan, xii, 5, 12

unities, classical, 17, 20, 148
utopianism, 1557, 165, 166
Valenza, Robin, 3
Vico, G. B., 2, 3
virtue, 55, 80 82, 91, 1089, 11011,
11416, 133, 134, 138
civic, 46, 65, 66
Waller, Edmund, 24
Warner, William, 122, 125
Warton, Joseph, 15
Warton, Thomas
History of English Poetry, 47, 60
Wellek, Ren, 15, 27, 47
Wood, Robert, 1212, 124
Wordsworth, William, 4, 8, 51, 53, 149 52,
1547, 1656
Essay on Morals, 150
The Excursion, 166, 167
Preface, 157
The Ruined Cottage, 153, 155, 157,
15960, 1614, 167
The Solitary, 166
Lyrical Ballads, 148, 149
Essay, Supplementary to the Preface,
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Preface, 25, 125, 140, 146, 14950
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writing, 3, 4, 31, 44, 98, 142, 145