Elements of Criticism the view of static or subjective tenets in literary composition, and endeavors to create a novel hypothesis based on the principles of human nature. The late eighteenth-century practice of sentimental prose was coupled with his idea that the legitimate rules of critique are obtained from the human heart.

Lord Henry Home Kames (1696-1782) was a Scottish activist, justice, philosopher, author and farming reformer. A key figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, a founding representative of the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh, and involved in the Select Society, he functioned as a benefactor to some of the most prominent thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment.