The Canons of Literary Criticism (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Canons of Literary Criticism This is an excellent little book. In about ninety small pages Mr. Worsfold endeavors to give an account of literary criticism and of the principles on which it i i based. The first chapter is devoted to a eew of the arts in general. Following Aristotle, these are divided into Fine Arts and Mechanical Arts. The Fine Arts are claaeifled in two ways. They are divided into Arts of the Eye and Arts of the Ear, according as they make their appeal to the sense of sight or to that of hearing. Or they may be classified by reference to their material basis, on this principle Hegel places Architecture lowest, and Poetry highest, in order of dignity. The student receives no hint that Hegels classification has ever been dissented from, or that any other arrangement has ever been proposed. Much might be said on this question of the classification of the Arts, yet some sketch, however brief, should have been given the reader. We will follow Mr. Worsfold sexample and paae over this thorny question. We have then a definition of Art as being the presentation of the real in its mental aspect. This must be read in t Mnnection with Cousins definition of idealisation quoted subsequently. The author tests this definition of Art by considering each of the Fine Arts separately, and how each one affects the mind of the percipient, not only by its material medium, but by its symbolic effect. The only remark we have to make on this chapter, otherwise a model of condensation, is that the comparison made of the principles of criticism with those of morality strikes us as inept, especially where terseness is sought. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.