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William Wordsworth
An 18th-century Irish philosopher and statesman whose A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful revolutionized European thinking on the concept of the sublime. He argued that, whereas beautiful things please the senses through their sensible qualities, sublime things create a sense of awe by demonstrating humans’ inadequacy in the face of forces that infinitely exceed them and cannot be controlled by them.
Edmund Burke Quotes in The Art of Travel
The The Art of Travel quotes below are all either spoken by Edmund Burke or refer to Edmund Burke. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 6 Quotes
The value of landscapes would henceforth be decided not solely on the basis of formal aesthetic criteria (the harmony of colours, for example, or the arrangement of lines) or even economic or practical concerns, but rather according to the power of places to arouse the mind to sublimity.
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As 18th-century critics increasingly turned an eye to the sublime, de Botton explains, they began to reconsider the way they judged a landscape’s value for the human observer: a landscape became great because of its psychological effects on people, and not merely because of any objective beauty standard. Just as Wordsworth’s poetry has brought centuries of English city-dwellers to the Lake District and Nietzsche argued that visiting Florence might teach people about a few dedicated artists’ disproportionate impact on the course of history, the notion of the sublime forever transformed public concepts of aesthetic value and demonstrates the core role Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendis consectetur
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Edmund Burke Character Timeline in The Art of Travel
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Chapter 6: On the Sublime
...natural forces. In his bag, De Botton has brought the work of Irish philosopher Edmund Burke, who argued that things were sublime (as opposed to merely beautiful) when they suggested human...
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...and God directs him to ponder sublime landscapes. This is the Book of Job, which Burke considered the Old Testament’s most sublime; Job is incredibly wealthy but suddenly loses nearly all...
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