Sep 27
Angels of rain and lightning, there are spread On the blue surface of thine aery surge, Like the bright hair uplifted from the head Of some fierce Maenad, even from the dim verge Of the horizon to the zenith’s height, The locks of the approaching storm. Burke likens the sublime to things that cause or …
Sep 27
Ode to a Nightingale “To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain— To thy high requiem become a sod.” (Lines 56-60) Edmund Burke defines the literary term, sublime as the idea of …
Sep 27
“On Seeing The Elgin Marbles” lines 1-5: “My spirit is too weak; mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep And each imagined pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship, tells me I must die Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky.” – John Keats Edmund Burke tells in his “Of the Passion Caused by …
Sep 24
This assignment allows you to think through, in writing, a particularly Romantic aesthetic: the sublime. First, be sure to complete the reading assigned on the syllabus for Friday’s class (9/25). You’ll read the introductory note to this section and then focus on the selections from Edmund Burke (remember him?) and Mary Wollstonecraft (early feminist and …