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Tintern Abbey, J.M.W. Turner, 1795, British Museu
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Tintern Abbey, J.M.W. Turner, 1795, British Museum

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Mr. and Mrs. Andrews, Th. Gainsborough, 1750, National Gallery, UK

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Hannibal Crossing the Alps, Turner, 1826, Tate Gallery

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Wanderer Above the Mist, Caspar David Friedrich, 1818, Kunsthalle Hamburg

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The Sublime

• Man lost in nature -- smallness in immense nature

• Nature transcends society and man

• Nature connotes beauty and eternity

• But also terror, awe, danger

• World without God, society, convention

• Eternity and freedom of nature

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Nature as Innocent Power

To see the world in a grain of sand

And heaven in a wild flower,

Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand

And eternity in an hour.--Blake, “Auguries of Innocence”

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Nature as Violent Power

The boat incident: Prelude Book II dipped my oars into the silent lake,And, as I rose upon the stroke, my boatWent heaving through the water like a swan;When, from behind that craggy steep till thenThe horizon's bound, a huge peak, black and huge,As if with voluntary power instinctUpreared its head…

--Prelude 1.374-400

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Nature as Violent Power

The power, which all

Acknowledge when thus moved, which Nature thus

To bodily sense exhibits, is the express

Resemblance of that glorious faculty

That higher minds bear with them as their own.

--Prelude, 14.86-90

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Echoes on Mt. SnowdonThere I beheld the emblem of a mind

That feeds upon infinity, that broods

Over the dark abyss, intent to hear

Its voices issuing forth to silent light

In one continuous stream; (14.70-74)

…Thou from the first

Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread

And mad’st it pregnant: What in me is dark

Illumine, what is low raise and support (Paradise 1.19-23)

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Echoes on Mt. SnowdonThere I beheld the emblem of a mindThat feeds upon infinity, that broodsOver the dark abyss, intent to hearIts voices issuing forth to silent lightIn one continuous stream; (1850 Prelude 14.70-74)

The perfect image of a mighty mind,Of one that feeds upon infinity,That is exalted by an underpresence,The sense of God, or whatso’er is dimOr vast in its own being… (1805 Prelude 13.69-73)


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