Autore
Leone, Giuseppe

Titolo
La didascalia invisibile. Shelley e Turner: declinazione di Sublime
Periodico
In verbis
Anno: 2013 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 121 - Pagina finale: 146

Burke's Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublimeand Beautiful certainly should be mentioned among the texts which chieflyinfluenced English culture during the second half of the Eighteenth century.Published in 1757, the treatise can be considered an authentic turningpoint in Arts and Literature, drawing attention to the passion of theSublime and producing a progressive shift "from an objective to a subjectivediscourse". This essay deals with the deep ascendency exerted by theEnquiry on Shelley's and Turner's productions. Driven by a highly evocativeand imaginative spirit, the two authors investigate man's inner emotions,especially when assailing the mind while observing the immense power ofNature. A power which has the great capability of raising the passion ofthe sublime; i.e. the sensation felt by man when his gaze is caught by theimmeasurable vastness of a boundless landscape, or it is trapped by thedreadful, charming vision of Nature expressing its vigorous supremacy: inthat half-suspended state of the soul in which imagination, astonishmentand fear eventually merge.



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