Chapter II: History of Artistic and Literary Kinds

The kinds in antiquity: Aristotle--In the Middle Ages and Renaissance--The doctrine of the three unities--Poetics of the kinds and rules: Scaliger--Lessing--Compromises and extensions--Rebellion against rules in general--G. Bruno, Guarini--Spanish critics--G. B. Marino--G. V. Gravina--Fr. Montani--Critics of the eighteenth century--Romanticism and the "strict kinds": Berchet, V. Hugo--Their persistence in philosophical theories--Fr. Schelling--E. von Hartmann--The kinds in the schools