Date of Award
Spring 2020
Presentation Date
5-1-2020
Document Type
Senior Essay
First Advisor
Felicia Martinez
Abstract
Do you often wonder why so many people, from artistic friends to English professors, rave about poetry? Then you've come to the right thesis. For my thesis surveys definitions of a concept to which both ancient and modern thinkers have attributed great poetry's astonishing effect: "sublimity". In addition, I delve into poems which exemplify these definitions—and for the grand finale, I offer a definition and accompanying poem of my own.
Recommended Citation
Pappas, Nick, "Why Some Lines Never Die: Ancient and Modern Accounts of the Poetic Sublime" (2020). Integral Program Senior Essays. 33.
https://digitalcommons.stmarys-ca.edu/integral-senior-essay/33
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