Aesthetics -- Early works to 1800 books

The Poetics of Aristotle

Aristotle

Aristotle’s Poetics is a systematic treatise on the nature and function of poetry, organized as a series of…

Laocoon: An essay upon the limits of painting and poetry. With remarks illustrative of various points in the history of ancient art.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Aristotle on the art of poetry

Aristotle

Reflections on the painting and sculpture of the Greeks: With Instructions for the Connoisseur, and an Essay on Grace in Works of Art

Johann Joachim Winckelmann

The Analysis of Beauty Written with a view of fixing the fluctuating ideas of taste

William Hogarth

The Art of Poetry: an Epistle to the Pisos Q. Horatii Flacci Epistola Ad Pisones, De Arte Poetica.

Horace

An Essay on the Beautiful, from the Greek of Plotinus

Plotinus

Laokoon: Oder, Über die Grenzen der Malerei und Poesie

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Aristoteles' Poetik: Mit einer Abhandlung: Wahrheit und Irrtum in der Katharsis-Theorie des Aristoteles

Aristotle

Runousoppi

Aristotle