Edmund Burke: A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful - Paperback
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Edmund Burke: A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
In his Enquiry--which has been described as "certainly one of the most important aesthetic documents that eighteenth -century England produced"--the young Burke provided a systematic analysis of the 'sublime' and the 'beautiful, ' together with a distinctive terminology which served to express certain facets of the changing sensibility of his time.
The introduction traces the main sources of...
Edmund Burke (1729-97) was elected as an MP in 1781. He championed the unpopular cause of Catholic emancipation and a great part of his career became dedicated to the problem of India. The French Revolution prompted one of his best-known works Reflections on the Revolution in France
The late James T. Boulton was Emeritus Professor, University of Birmingham.
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