Entertainment / Literature / The Sublime: The Greek rhetorician Longinus wrote a treatise On the Sublime, which argued that sublimity (loftiness') is the most important quality of fine literature. The sublime caused the reader to experience elestasis (transport'). Edmund Burke developed this line of thought further in his influential essay, 'The Sublime and the Beautiful' (1757). Here, he distinguished the sublime from the beautiul by suggesting that the sublime was not a stylistic quality but the powerful depiction of subjects that were vast, obscure, and powerful. These sublime topics or subjects evoked 'delightful horror' in the viewer or reader, a combination of terror and amazed pleasure. To illustrate the difference between beauty and sublimity, we might say that gazing thoughtfully into a rosebud merely involves the beautiful, gazing in awe into the Grand Canyon from its edge involves the sublime--particularly if the viewer is about to fall in. Contrast with bathos.
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Sublime Adjective Synonyms: lofty, high, supreme, exalted, elevated, empyrean or empyreal, heavenly, noble, glorious, grand, high-minded, honourable, ennobled, eminent, glorified, beatified, canonized, sanctified, great, good
Sublime Noun Synonyms: awesome, overwhelming, inspiring, mind-boggling, overpowering, humbling, awe-inspiring, majestic, splendid, empyrean
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