James Beattie (writer)

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James Beattie

James Beattie (born October 25, 1735 in Laurencekirk , Kincardineshire , Scotland , † August 18, 1803 in Aberdeen ) was a Scottish philosopher and writer . Beatties poem The Minstrel (1771) was one of the earliest works of English Romanticism . He was one of the representatives of the common sense philosophy . Since 1786 he was an elected member of the American Philosophical Society .

Works

  • Original Poems and Translations (1760)
  • The Judgment of Paris (1765)
  • Poems on Several Subjects (1766)
  • An Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth (1770)
  • The minstrel; or, The Progress of Genius (1771/2) two volumes
  • Essays, on the nature and immutability of truth in opposition to sophistry and skepticism. On poetry and music as they affect the mind. On laughter and ludicrous composition. On the utility of classical learning (1776)
  • Essays on Poetry (1778)
  • Scoticisms, Arranged in Alphabetical Order, Designed to Correct Improprieties of Speech and Writing (1779);
  • Poems on several occasions (1780)
  • Dissertations Moral and Critical (1783)
  • The Evidences of the Christian Religion Briefly and Plainly Stated (1786) 2 vols.
  • The theory of language. Part I. Of the origin and general nature of speech. Part II. Of universal grammer (1788)
  • Elements of Moral Science (1790-1793) 2 volumes
  • The Poetical Works of James Beattie (1831) ed. by A. Dyce
  • The poetical works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer (1868) ed. by Charles Cowden Clarke
  • James Beattie's Day-Book, 1773-1778 (1948) ed. by RS Walker
  • James Beattie's Diary (1948) ed. by RS Walker

literature

  • Karen Kloth: James Beatties Aesthetic Theories. Their connections with the Aberdeen school philosophy. Fink, Munich 1974 (also Phil. Diss. University of Münster, 1972)

Web links

Commons : James Beattie  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member History: James Beattie. American Philosophical Society, accessed April 26, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Beattie, James
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish philosopher and writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1735
PLACE OF BIRTH Laurencekirk , Kincardineshire , Scotland
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 1803
Place of death Aberdeen