Shaftesbury and Literary Criticism: Philosophers and Critics in Early Eighteenth-Century England
Karen Collis
This article re-examines the assumption that Anthony Ashley Cooper (the Third Earl of Shaftesbury) and Joseph Addison should be studied together as architects similar theories criticism. I argue though may have used some same terms Shaftesbury, their approaches to criticism were, in fact, irreconcilable. In discussing criticism, both men contributed debates about encroachment modern philosophy on disciplines areas knowledge which were traditionally part studia humanitatis . demands a reappraisal nature Shaftesbury’s relationship English literary intellectual culture. this was more hostile oppositional than is currently understood.
The Review of English Studies