In Great Books of the Western World
- Aeschylus:
- Prometheus Bound
- Plato:
- Phaedrus;
- Symposium;
- Republic, Books III, X;
- Laws, Books II, VII;
- Ion
- Aristotle:
- On Poetics;
- Rhetoric;
- Politics, Book VIII;
- Ethics, Book VI, Ch. 4;
- Metaphysics, Book I, Ch. 1, Book VII, Chs. 7-9
- Lucretius:
- On the Nature of Things, Book IV, lines 1141-1191, Book V
- Plotinus:
- The Six Enneads, Ennead I, Tractate VI
- Aquinas:
- Summa Theologica, Part 1, Q. 5, A. 4, Q. 91, A. 3
- Hobbes:
- Leviathan, Introduction
- Montaigne: Essays,
- "Of Cato the Younger,"
- "Apology for Raimond de Sebonde"
- Bacon:
- Novum Organum, Preface, Book I
- Rousseau:
- A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
- Kant:
- The Critique of Judgment, Introduction, Sections VI-VII, Part I,
"Critique of Aesthetic Judgment"
- Hegel:
- The Philosophy of History, Part II, Sections I-II
- Freud:
- Civilization and Its Discontents, Section II
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In Other Works
- Abercrombie, Lascelles:
- An Essay Towards a Theory of Art;
- The Theory of Poetry
- Arnold, Matthew:
- Essays in Criticism
- Bacon, Francis: Essays,
- "Of Beauty,"
- "Of Deformity"
- Bergson, Henri:
- Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
- Burckhardt, Jacob:
- The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy;
- Force and Freedom, Sections II-III
- Burke, Edmund:
- A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of
Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful
- Coleridge, Samuel T.:
- Biographia Literaria
- Croce, Benedetto:
- Aesthetic, as Science of Expression and General Linguistic;
- The Essence of Aesthetics
- Dewey, John:
- Art As Experience
- Eliot, T. S.:
- Selected Essays: The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism
- Freud, Sigmund:
- On Creativity and the Unconscious;
- Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious
- Gill, Eric R. P. J.:
- Art, Nonsense and Other Essays;
- Beauty Looks After Herself
- Hazlitt, William:
- Sketches and Essays, "On Taste"
- Horace:
- The Art of Poetry
- James, Henry:
- The Art of the Novel
- Kierkegaard, Soren:
- Either/Or;
- The Stages on Life's Way
- Lessing, Gotthold E.:
- Laocoon
- Longinus:
- On the Sublime
- Lubbock, Percy:
- The Craft of Fiction
- Maritain, Jacques:
- Art and Scholasticism
- Meredith, George:
- An Essay on Comedy and the Uses of the Comic Spirit
- Morris, William:
- The Aims of Art;
- Art and Socialism;
- Hopes and Fears for Art
- Nietzsche, Friedrich:
- The Birth of Tragedy
- Ortega y Gasset, Jose:
- The Dehumanization of Art
- Rank, Otto:
- Art and the Artist
- Read, Herbert E.:
- Art and Industry;
- The Meaning of Art;
- The Nature of Literature
- Reynolds, Joshua:
- Discourses on Art
- Richards, Ivor A.:
- The Philosophy of Rhetoric;
- Principles of Literary Criticism;
- Practical Criticism
- Ruskin, John:
- Modern Painters;
- The Stones of Venice;
- Sesame and Lilies
- Santayana, George:
- The Sense of Beauty;
- Reason in Art;
- Interpretations of Poetry and Religion
- Schiller, Friedrich von:
- Letters upon the Esthetic Education of Man
- Shaw, George Bernard:
- Dramatic Opinions and Essays
- Tolstoy, Leo:
- What Is Art?
- Van Doren, Mark:
- The Noble Voice, a Study of Ten Great Poems
- Veblen, Thorstein B.:
- The Instinct of Workmanship, and the State of the Industrial Arts;
- The Vested Interests and the State of the Industrial Arts
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