Essays on the picturesque, as compared with the sublime and the beautiful

Preface Part I: 1. The reasons why an improver should study pictures as well as nature 2. Causes of the neglect of the picturesque in modern improvements 3. General meaning of the word picturesque 4. General distinctions between the picturesque and the beautiful 5. To create the sublime above our contracted powers 6. It has been doubted by some whether smoothness is essential to beauty 7. Breadth of light and shadow 8. On the beautiful, and on what might be termed the picturesque, in colour 9. On ugliness Part II: 1. How far the principles of painting have been applied to improvements 2. Trees considered generally 3. On the general effects of water in landscape Part III: 'The landscape', a didactic poem.