 Bosanquet’s writings on art and aesthetics are not as well known as those of the third generation idealist, R.G. Collingwood (1889–1943) or of his Italian late contemporary Benedetto Croce (1866–1952). Yet Bosanquet was the author of the first history of aesthetics in English—described by Monroe C. Beardsley as a “pioneering work” (1966: 14) that was the only comprehensive study of aesthetics in English for half a century—and he was referred to by the literary scholar and Oxford Professor of Poetry, A.C. Bradley as “the only British philosopher of the first rank who had dealt fully with this branch of philosophy [i.e., aesthetics]” (A.C. Bradley, p. 570).