A NEW SENSIBILITY

TOWARDS SUBJECTIVE POETRY

18th century

new sensibility

new generation of poets

new trends

no precise programme of rules

early 18th century poets

impersonal material

loud and noble eloquence

later 18th century poets

subjective and autobiographical material

poetry

essentially

reflective

A NEW CONCEPT OF NATURE

revolution

concept of nature

classic view of nature

abstract concept

most remarkable work onn the subject

Edmund Nurke's

A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

he gave

supremacy to the sublime

THE SUBLIME

distinction between

beautiful and sublime

main theme of 18 th century aesthetics

BURKE

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

SAMUEL COLERIDGE