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PRE-ROMANTIC SENSIBILITY - Coggle Diagram
PRE-ROMANTIC SENSIBILITY
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Change factors:
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interest in melancholy, desolation, ruins, graveyards, ancient castles and abbeys
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reaction to the triumph of Reason that had dominated the Enlightenment and the desire to experience nature to know the real essence of the universe
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Sublime vs. Beautiful
Sublime: 'whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger […] or operates in a manner analogous to terror' (Burke)
there is pleasure in terror and pain, the strongest emotions
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