Sublime,
Beautiful, Picturesque
nLonginus, On the Sublime
(AD 50)
–Resulting from spirit--a spark from writer
to reader--rather
than technique
nEdmund Burke, Philosophical Inquiry into the Origins of Our Ideas of the Sublime and
Beautiful (1757-1759)
nImmanuel Kant, Critique of Judgment (1790)
–Beauty is finite; the sublime is infinite