The Sublime

We'll be speaking in a number of later classes about poems that overtly or implicitly discuss the sublime.  It's a much debated concept in the Romantic period, and one of its key early investigators is none other than Burke.  Here are few sites to supplement our discussions in class:
http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/romantic/topic_1/burke.htm
http://www.victorianweb.org/philosophy/sublime/sublimeov.html