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