![]() ![]() He contended that the sublimity is whatsoever that brings about terror or is what terrifies the subjects. Burke himself witnessed the revolution in France and propounded his philosophical viewpoints revolving around the notion of the sublime. Hence, the paper concentrates on that essential metamorphosis in the content of the concept from progression to regression in the concept of sublime. Burke, unlike all other thinkers who view sublimity as a delightful and elevating feeling, perceives sublimity as an element of dangerous and terrifying incidents and objects mainly in relation with the great incident of the French Revolution. This paper aims at analysing the concept of the sublime, which is a pioneering concept of the English Romantics poetry, in relation to the French revolution in the works of Edmund Burke. ![]()
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