Bernard Bosanquet, A History of Aesthetic (London, 1892; New York, 1957).
Benedetto Croce, Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic, Part II (trans. Douglas Ainslie, 2d ed. London, 1922).
Katharine Gilbert and Helmut Kuhn, A History of Aesthetics (New York, 1939; Bloomington, 1954).
Karl Aschenbrenner and Arnold Isenberg, eds., Aesthetic Theories: Studies in the Philosophy of Art (Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1965).
Albert Hofstadter and Richard Kuhns, eds., Philosophies of Art and Beauty: Selected Readings in Aesthetics from Plato to Heidegger (New York, 1964).
Alexander Sesonske, ed., What is Art?: Aesthetic Theory from Plato to Tolstoy (New York, 1965).
William K. Wimsatt, Jr., and Cleanth Brooks, Literary Criticism: A Short History (New York, 1957).
J. W. H. Atkins, Literary Criticism in Antiquity, 2 vols. (Cambridge, 1934); English Literary Criticism: The Medieval Phase (New York and Cambridge, 1943); English Literary Criticism: 17th and 18th Centuries (New York, 1951).
René Wellek, A History of Modern Criticism, Vols. I and II (Yale U., 1955).
Allan H. Gilbert, ed., Literary Criticism, Plato to Dryden (New York, 1940).
G. W. Allen and H. H. Clark, eds., Literary Criticism from Pope to Croce (New York, 1941).
Barrett H. Clark, ed., European Theories of the Drama (Cincinnati, 1918).
Oliver Strunk, ed., Source Readings in Music History (New York, 1950).
Elizabeth Gilmore Holt, ed., Literary Sources of Art History (Princeton U., 1947).
Lionello Venturi, History of Art Criticism, trans. Charles Marriott (New York, 1936).
(Special bibliographies are given at the end of each chapter. The order in which works are cited is approximately the order in which the aestheticians are discussed in the body of the text, except that where several works concern a particular aesthetician those judged likely to be most helpful to the reader are placed first.)