Romantic Horizons: Aspects of the Sublime in English Poetry and Painting, 1770-1850, Volume 10 |
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Burke's thesis in his Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful is deceptively clear. After discussing what constitutes "taste," he separates the sublime from the beautiful: the beautiful is small, ...
Burke's thesis in his Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful is deceptively clear. After discussing what constitutes "taste," he separates the sublime from the beautiful: the beautiful is small, ...
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Burke's thesis in his Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful is deceptively clear . After discussing what constitutes " taste , ” he separates the sublime from the beautiful : the beautiful is ...
Burke's thesis in his Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful is deceptively clear . After discussing what constitutes " taste , ” he separates the sublime from the beautiful : the beautiful is ...
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We call an object sublime in relation to which the exercise of comparison is suspended : while on the contrary that object is most beautiful , which in its highest perfection sustains while it satisfies the comparing Power .
We call an object sublime in relation to which the exercise of comparison is suspended : while on the contrary that object is most beautiful , which in its highest perfection sustains while it satisfies the comparing Power .
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Contents
William Blake The Arlington Court Picture | 52 |
Evening | 78 |
W Turner The Slave Ship | 101 |
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achieved aesthetic Ancient appear artists attempt awareness beautiful became become Blake Byron called cave central century clearly clouds Coleridge color concerned consciousness considered Constable Constable's continue cosmic Cozens critics Cynthia daemons described earth edge effect elevated Endymion English especially eternal ethereal exist experience explain fact feel finally forms give heaven higher horizon human imagination important interest interpretations John Keats kind landscape light liminal lines look Manfred Martin matter meaning mind mountains nature never nineteenth objects once organized painters painting picture play pleasure poem poet poetry Prometheus psychological refers result romantic scene seems seen sense Shelley side soul space spirits structure Study sublime things thought threshold tion tradition trees turn Turner Unbound understanding universe vision visual Wordsworth