Sublime

**Sublime** Romantic poets were fascinated with creating poetry that communicated ideas and feelings of the sublilme.



The top picture demonstrates a "picturesque" view of nature, the bottom a "sublime" view of nature.

The Romantic Period

Sublime Definition:

* Causing deep emotions and feelings of wonder or joy.


 * Of high spiritual, moral, or intellectual worth.


 * Of overwhelming greatness, grandeur, beauty etc.


 * A quality of awesome grandeur in art or nature, which some 18th‐century writers distinguished from the merely beautiful.


 * associated with ideas of awe, intensity ruggedness, terror, and vastness emphasizing Man's relative insignificance in the face of Nature, arousing emotions, and stimulating the imagination.


 * It was therefore distinct from the Beautiful and the Picturesque, and was of profound importance in relation to an appreciation of the grandeur and violence of natural phenomena.