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Sublimity

Sublimity

To the mass the sublimest and highest is only exaggeration, because sublimity is perceived by reason, and all men have not the same share of it. A vulgar soul is oppressed or overstretched by those sublime ideas, and the crowd sees dreadful disorder where a thinking mind sees the highest order.

Of the cause of the pleasure we derive from tragic objects
Author

Friedrich Schiller

Work

Aesthetical and Philosophical Essays Part II

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Friedrich Schiller

Schiller - Aesthetical and Philosophical Essays Part II

  • The moral utility of aesthetic manners
  • On the sublime
  • The pathetic
  • On grace and dignity
  • On dignity
  • On the necessary limitations in the use of beauty of form
  • Reflections on the use of the vulgar and low elements in works of art
  • Detached reflections on different questions of aesthetics
  • On simple and sentimental poetry
  • Sentimental poetry
  • Satirical poetry
  • Elegiac poetry
  • Idyl
  • The stage as moral institution
  • On the tragic art
  • Of the cause of the pleasure we derive from tragic objects

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