A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful

Book • 1759

Mentioned by

Mentioned by

Richard Bourke

as Burke's influential 1757 work distinguishing the sublime and the beautiful and shaping his aesthetic thought.

Mentioned by

Patrick Callahan

in the context of the history of the sublime in aesthetic thought.

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