The Romantic poet William Wordsworth wrote of 'the sensation of sublimity' as 'a comprehensive awe'. Psychologists refer to the sublime as an awe-like aesthetic emotion. Without the positive affect, there is no experience of the sublime. But even if the sublime has to be felt, it is still a response to something about the object, […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:24PM on July 15, 2020