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Lecture 7
He bursts upon them all,Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends,And swelled with tempests on the ship descends;White are the decks with foam; the winds aloudHowl o’er the masts, and sing thro’ every shroud :Pale, trembling, tired the sailors freeze with fears,And instant death on every wave appears.
For the mind is naturally elevated by the true Sublime, and so sensibly affected with its lively strokes, that it swells in transport and an inward pride, as if what was only heard had been the product of its own invention.
Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime.
The Handel Commemoration 1784
All The multitude of angels, with a Shout
Loud as from numbers without number
JohnMartin,Joshua
commandingthe sun tostand stillat Gibeon
1816
The nations tremble at the dreadful sound,Heav’n thunders, tempests roar, and groans the ground.
Haydn, The Creation 1799
And God said “Let there be light”, and there was light.
William Blake,The Ancient of Days
1794
Rossini, Guillaume Tell 1829
Voici le jour!Pour nous c’est un signal d’alarmes.De victoire!Quel cri doit y répondre ?Aux armes!
Richard Kissling,Statue of William Tell
1895
J.M.W. Turner, Shipwreck 1805
Meyerbeer, L’Africaine 1865Designs:Charles-Antoine Cambon and Joseph-François-Désiré Thierry ,Paris Opera 1865
Wagner, Wagner, Götterdämmerung Götterdämmerung 18761876
Staging:Harry Kupfer,Bayreuth1991
Reflective judgment
The infinite The powerful
Human creativityHuman moral
autonomyHuman freedom
Subject-matter
arouses
Affective feelingevokes