A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

With an Introductory Discourse Concerning Taste; and Several Other Additions

af Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke (1729-97) first published in 1757 this enquiry into the psychological origins of aesthetic taste. His doctrine of the sublime was to influence artistic and literary perceptions for years to come. Reissued here is the revised second edition, which appeared in 1759.