What is art?: Aesthetic theory from Plato to Tolstoy

Plato: Ion

Greater Hippias

Republic, Book III ,Book X

Symposium

Phaedrus

Philebus

Laws, Book II

Aristotle: On Poetic Art

Politics, Book VIII

Longinus: From On the Sublime

Plotinus: 1st Ennead, 6th Tractate: Beauty

5th Ennead, 8th Tractae: On the Intellectual Beauty

St. Augustine: From The Soliloquies

From On Free Will

From The True Religion

Nicholas Boileau: From The Art of Poetry

Anthony, Third Earl of Shaftesbury: From Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times

Joseph Addison: From The Spectator, #409-418

Francis Hutcheson: From An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue

Edmund Burke: From A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

David Hume: Of the Standard of Taste

Alexander Gerard: From An Essay on Taste

E. E. Lessing: From Laokoon

Archibald Alison: From Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste

Friedrich Schiller: From Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man

William Wordsworth: Observations Prefixed to "Lyrical Ballads"

F. W. Von Schelling: On the Relations of the Plastic Arts to Nature

S. T. Coleridge: From Biographia Literaria

From On Poesy or Art

Arthur Schopenhauer: From The World as Will and Idea

G. W. F. Hegel: From The Philosophy of Fine Art

Alexander Smith: The Philosophy of Poetry

Auguste Comte: From A General View of Positivism

Hippolyte Taine: From The Philosophy of Art

Walter Pater: From The Renaissance

Friedrich Nietzsche: From The Birth of Tragedy

From The Will to Power

William Morris: From Art and the People: A Socialist's Protest against Capitalist Brutality

Leo Tolstoy: From What Is Art?