The Reflection of Edmund Burke’s Sublime in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Selected Poetry

Authors

  • Aziz ur Rehman Assistant Professor of English, HED, KP Author
  • Sania Gul University of Swabi Author
  • Lubna Ayaz Lecturer in English, Islamia College Peshawar Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33195/pcc31177

Keywords:

sublime, beautiful, Burke, Coleridge, supernatural

Abstract

This paper explores Edmund Burke’s concept ‘the sublime’ in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poetry. Coupled with his concept of ‘the beautiful’, Burke’s the sublime features conspicuous in creative arts. While beauty is an integral constituent or rather product of art, the sublime is no less desirable in amplifying a given piece of art. Unlike the beautiful, reflection of the sublime is considerably rare in poetry specifically the romantic. Coleridge is an exception in creating sublime effect in his poetry. His major poems especially The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan not only reflect but almost embody the sublime as shown in this analysis. The secret of Coleridge’s fame as a supernatural poet owes largely to his use of the sublime. While the thematic critiques of Coleridge’s poetry are overshadowed by the supernatural, this brief textual analysis is an improvement in being different, entailing the sublime.

Keywords: sublime, beautiful, Burke, Coleridge, supernatural

References

Burke, Edmund. A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime

and the Beautiful. Ed. James T. Boulton. London: Routledge, 1958.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. The Complete Poems. Ed. William Keach. New York:

Penguin, 1997.

Harold J. Laski. Political Thought in England: Locke to Bentham. London: Oxford University

Press, 1950.

Vallins, David, Ed. On the Sublime, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. New York:

Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

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Published

07/03/2023

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Vol. 7 No. I (2023): University of Chitral Journal of Linguistics and Literature

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Aziz ur Rehman, Sania Gul, & Lubna Ayaz. (2023). The Reflection of Edmund Burke’s Sublime in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Selected Poetry. University of Chitral Journal of Linguistics and Literature, 7(I), 81-84. https://doi.org/10.33195/pcc31177