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Edited with an introduction and notes by James T. Boulton.One of the greatest essays ever written on art.- The GuardianEdmund Burkes A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful is one of the most important works of aesthetics ever published. Whilst many writers have taken up their pen to write of the beautiful, Burkes subject here was the quality he uniquely distinguished as the sublime--An all-consuming force beyond beauty that compelled terror as much as rapture in all who beheld it. It was an analysis that would go on to inspire some of the leading thinkers of the age, including Immanuel Kant and Denis Diderot. The Routledge Classics edition presents the authoritative text of the first critical edition of Burkes essay ever published, including a substantial critical and historical commentary. Edmund Burke (1729-1797). A politician, philosopher and orator, Burke lived during a turbulent time in world history, which saw revolutions in America and France that inspired his most famous work, Reflections on the Revolution in France.;BOOK COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- EDITORS PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- EDITORS INTRODUCTION -- NOTE ON THE TEXT -- THE PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION -- THE PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION -- THE CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION ON TASTE -- APPENDIX -- INDEX.

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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful

one of the greatest essays ever written on art.

The Guardian

We have an example of true criticism in Burkes Essay on the Sublime and Beautiful.

Samuel Johnson

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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful

Edmund Burke

Edited with an introduction and notes by James T. Boulton, Emeritus Professor of English Studies, Birmingham University and Fellow of the British Academy

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CONTENTS

To
Margaret
Andrew and Helen

EDITORS PREFACE

Burkes eminence as a political thinker has been long acknowledged: his claims as an aesthetician have rarely been seriously, never thoroughly considered. On the other hand, while his theory is no longer acceptable, no reputable historian of the aesthetics, the literary criticism, or the taste of the eighteenth century fails to give a mentionfrequently a detailed analysisto Burkes Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful. And yet no critical edition of this work has been published in the two hundred years since its first appearance. Without exaggerating the wisdom of the Enquiry, one must rank it among the most important documents of its century. Besides painters, architects, and a host of minor writers, such major figures as Johnson, Blake (despite his overt scorn for Burkes ideas), Wordsworth, Hardy, Diderot, Lessing, and Kant felt its influence. It is hoped, therefore, that this bicentenary edition will enable a just historical estimate to be made of a work in which, as Johnson remarked of him later, Burkes stream of mind is perpetual.

The principal tasks facing an editor were to establish a definitive text, to show and account for Burkes extensive textual changes in the second edition, and to supply the necessary annotation. In addition, I have related the whole work to the historical development of ideas and shown some directions in which, in England and Europe, it appears to have been influential.

To whatever degree of adequacy and completeness has been achieved many have contributed; what faults remain are my sole responsibility. To Professor V. de S. Pinto and my colleagues in the Department of English in the University of Nottingham my thanks are due for their unfailing assistance; in particular I am indebted to Mr. G. R. Hibbard who read the manuscript, made valuable suggestions, and saved me from many erros. Mr. W. R. Chalmers and Dr. D. Brett-Evans kindly solved various problems connected with classical and German literature respectively; Mr. D. Jefferson, of the University of Leeds, generously put at my disposal his own work on the Enquiry; Professor T. W. Copeland, of the University of Chicago, answered many enquiries about the Burke manuscripts, as did Professor W. B. Todd, of Harvard University, about the printed texts; and to Professor I. Ehrenpreis, of Indiana University, who advised and assisted unstintingly, I am indebted in a score of ways. I am also grateful to Mr. H. Erskine-Hill for help in correcting the proofs. Finally, without the willing co-operation of the Librarians and staffs of the Bodleian Library and the Nottingham University Library, the task would have been impossible.

J.T.B.

University of Nottingham

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I acknowledge permission from Mr. C. E. C. Hussey, Messrs. Putnam & Co. Ltd. (London), and Messrs. G. P. Putnams Sons (New York), to quote from The Picturesque (1927); and from the Provost and Senior Fellows of Trinity College, Dublin, to quote from The Early Life, Correspondence and Writings of the Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke (Cambridge, 1923), by A. P. I. Samuels.

I am satisfied I have done but little by these observations considered in themselves; and I never should have taken the pains to digest them, much less should I have ever ventured to publish them, if I was not convinced that nothing tends more to the corruption of science than to suffer it to stagnate. These waters must be troubled before they can exert their virtues. A man who works beyond the surface of things, though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others, and may chance to make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth. I only desire one favour; that no part of this discourse may be judged of by itself and independently of the rest; for I am sensible I have not disposed my materials to abide the test of a captious controversy, but of a sober and even forgiving examination; that they are not armed at all points for battle; but dressed to visit those who are willing to give a peaceful entrance to truth.

Burke, Enquiry, p. 54.

EDITORS INTRODUCTION
I. COMPOSITION AND PUBLICATION

It is four years now since this enquiry was finished: so runs the Preface (not reprinted in later editions) to Edmund Burkes Sublime and Beautiful when it first appeared on 21 April 1757. Burkes assertion is untruehe refers, for instance, in the work itself to Spences Account of the Life, Character, and Poems of Mr. Blacklock, not published until 13 November 1754 While resisting this pressure Burke informed Malone that the subject had been long rolling in his thoughts before he wrote his book, he having been used from the time he was in college to speculate on the topics which form the subjects of it. He was six or seven years employed on

it. This more accurate indication of the period of composition directs our principal attention to the years 17471753 or 1754, but clearly suggests that to begin no earlier than 1747 would be to falsify the picture.

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