Edmund Burke Sublime

In his acclaimed book On the Sublime and Beautiful (1757), Edmund Burke tried to gather data to create a contrast between two aesthetic approaches, and, by examining the aspects that they stand for, to figure out the independent human beliefs that are conducted toward them. Burke’s contrast between the sublime and the beautiful was exceedingly significant, displaying as it did the current style of critique. Recently, philosophers have contributed to focus on the notions of current literary theory—such as portrayal, interpretation, design, characteristic, and sentimentality. The examination constantly has a dual objective: to present how these depictions might be condoned, and to display what is idiosyncratic in the human experiences that are