Eager Imagination

I'm not sure if Rob Wilson's The American Sublime is a good book, but it's definitely a tiresome one. It's written in that ...

Edmund Burke insists that aesthetic responses are first and foremost physiological responses. When he suggests that the sublime operates b...

Marianne Moore is justly appreciated for her carefully detailed poems that reveal her observation of the natural world. If, as she claims, ...

In my last post, I described the temporal experience of the sublime as outlined by Thomas Weiskel. But Weiskel moves beyond this observation...

The most useful idea in Weiskel's first chapter is his three-part structure of the sublime experience. The first stage is the status quo...