Romanticism is the ideals and feelings which are romantic over than realistic. Romantics believed in the natural goodness in humans. It involved breaking with the past, and consciously moving away from the ideas and traditions of the Enlightenment.

The Sublime

The theory of sublime art was put forward by Edmund Burke in A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful published in 1757. The term especially refers to a greatness beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement, or imitation.

In aesthetics, the sublime is the quality of greatness, whether physical, moral, intellectual, metaphysical, aesthetic, spiritual, or artistic.

Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke was an Irish-British statesman, economist, and philosopher. Born in Dublin, Burke served as a member of Parliament between 1766 and 1794 in the House of Commons of Great Britain with the Whig Party.

Burke argued against the idea of abstract, metaphysical rights of humans and instead advocated national.