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aug 5, 1756 - 'The Sublime and the Beautiful', Edmund Burke

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importance of feelings and imagination
The sublime results from being overawed by what is immense, obscure, threatening
→finds its best illustration in the Gothic Novel (18th century)
pre romantic

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aug 5, 1756
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~ 270 years ago