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GENERAL EDITOR A. E, DYSON
The Gothick
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A SELECTION OF CRITICAL ESSAYS
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are One: Cia! Comm & Opin 170-1040
sor oreo (1730), p,3L—soeno nen (1757), p. 33
tuan weno (1702), peat cotentpor (1797), p30
‘Stn Ae Ue 8p on
(Cotnan 6 = Mange saan (100), 948 — new
‘aan noms (616), p.12-rhouss ove reacocx (188),
pe aim wacren seore (OBIS) p38 & (1924), p56
fons owe (15 6S aye earn score (1827). 65—
[eau (1, p69 vem cus (1802), 9.72
Part Two Thi Cntr Stas
ron sanraaun: ‘Explain Sapenaira (1916)
Stuun nnto The Uncaney” (11)
overt rourane The Cothe Romance (152)
won ect King Death (1938),
ior Bop ta (1952)
‘Sone morow Eos mes Nar and Surat (885)
‘Mtoe ators Phe Gch England (915)
{tc nevsn: The Stations Ferro Lone’ (1960)
toner te vewte Ti Mas. Br Revol pst
the Lins of Han Nati (1273)
cons tot mois ional Tetique im Radli’s
stort unex me matt Many Shales
Monseous Eve (19)
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everyone knows the orignal, and can detec any deviation fom
‘racic of raemblane: Otber wens are safe, except fom he
Slice of kamg, but theo nein Oger Fook ere commen
Trader a the perl executed was censured by ashocmaker whe
Tappened to stops his way a the Venus of Apel:
Bur the fear of not beng approved ae jut opyers of human
‘manners i nx the mos important concern that ay auto o this
fort oughta have bee hi, Thee books are writen chit fo
{he yours, the ignorant, ana the le to whom they serves tes
‘cond, and inedetons int i. They ate the entertainment
‘minds unfurnished with sean and tberelce easly susceptible ot
Imnprensions not xd by principle, and theeore easily lowing
{he current of any, not informed by experience, and consequealy
open to every ise suggeston and paral account.
"Tha the highest degree everence abou be paid t youth nd
‘hat noching indecent shoal be sere to approach the eye ot
fag ae precepts extored by sense and rte om an ancient
‘eter, by no mean eminent for chastity of tough The same Kind,
Uho' no the mame degre a auto, equied a everything which
Ista efore them, to secre them fom uns pees, perverse
pinion and incongruous combinations of mages
Ta heromancstarmery writen, every raacion and sentiment
wa o remote fom all that passes amoag me, that the reader was
in'very le danger of making any applications to imal the
‘rues and crimes were equally beyond ie sphere of activity and
er amsed inl! with heroes an with tntry, dlveres ad
Dsectos, as with beings of another specs, whine actions were
equated epor mutes tthe een, and wh ad either ts
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Part One: Comment. bre, 190 98
Edmund Burke (1757)
Of he Sublime
Whatever i Bite in any sore wo exit the ideas of pain, and danger,
thats say, whatever isin any sor terble, oi eomersant about
terble objects or opertea na manner anaogout to tern, 8
Sues of the nln, hat iit productive of the tongest emotion
Src the mind is capable of eling Tay the strongest emotion,
Breau Tam salsied the ideas of pai ave much more powerfal
than thone wlth eter on che pat af pleasure Without al doubt,
the torments which we may be made er are much renter in
their eleee ‘on the ody and mind, than any. pleasres which
the more Lerma soluptury could suggest or chan the Lives
Imagination, and he mt sound and exit sensible bd could
‘oy. Nay Lam ingest dou, wheter any man could be ound
‘oho wool eam’ ie of the most peeetsatstction, a he pice of
ing ti the torent, which sie infted i few ours om
the late unfortunate regi in France’ ut ax aia i rong in
operation am pleasure, so death is in general much mote
‘Sling den than pains Deease there ae ey fe pias, however
‘huis, whi afe noe peered to dents ayy what generally
tales pain Use, 'T may says more painful iy that Ie
‘heleed a an xmitary ofthis King of tenors, When danger ot
Di pes too nearly, hey ar incapable of giving any delight, ad
[re implysernbe but at certain denen and” wih cera
‘ofeasons, they maybe, apd they are delightful as we every day
operons, The Gnas of hs T tall endevotr to keine
fercaher
(OF de pasion cased by the subline
"The pasion cause by the great and sume i nate, when those
‘aure operte ot powell Astonahiment nd atnshanent
iethat tte ofthe woth in wise le motion re eanpended, its
tome degre of hoor thi ease the mind iw earl ith
Ie caged, tha cant entertain ny eter, aor by conaequcnce
‘esson on that objet which employ it Hence arses the rent pee
the subline, hat fr fom being produced by them, ieantpates4 roweno seer (1757)
‘ur seasonings, and hari ut om by a ieeile free. Astonish
tent as Ihave sais the lec of he sublime nt highest degre
the friar eects ate admiration, eeverence and respect
Teor
No passion so cualy robs the mind of alts powers of acting
find remorng at tear Forfar being a0 apprehension of pain
“ean ieopertes ina manne that eembls seal pain, Weatever
therefore ere, with rgard to sgh, subline to, wheter
thir eau of tro, be ended ith reataes of dimension or no
Tarik is impose to lack on any tng a fing, or eonteanpble,
that my be dangerous There ace many animal, who though far
fiom bring large, ar yet capable of rasing teas of the sie,
Drcause they ate considered as objet of terror. As serpents aed
Prosonour hal of lowe all Kinds And to thing? of great
‘Ginensions if we annex an adventitne eno tron they bene
witout comparison greater. leet plain ofa vart extent or Land,
5 eatin ao mean tea the pospet af such a plan: may be as
CGcnsve ar prspet ofthe been Dut ca ever fl the id
Sith any thing so great atthe ocean ite? Thier owing fo several
‘huts, bute owing to mone more tha thi chat the rani an
objet of no small tor. Indeed terror ial eases whatoever,
‘ther more openly er Inet he ruling peacple of the subi
‘Several languages bear a strong testimony to the aint of these
‘eas They fequetly use the same word, to sig indifereny
the modes ofasmamet or aration ad theae of tere, BOE
iin grec, ether far or wonder, Seti tebe or respectable:
yo evereiceof 10 fear, Fr in lati, what edd i in
reek" The Romans used the verb sigs, 2 teem which stongly
‘harks dhe sate o's astonished mind, to expres the elt ihe
{imple fer or of asoismen the word atu, (chunderrack)
{is equalycapesive of the alae of tse Hens and donot the
{fenth coment, ad the english ees! ad amacoen, ois
fut a levy the Kindred emotions wise attend ear and wonder?
‘They who have a move general kuowledge of languages, could
produc, [mike doubt, many ober and equally thing examples
Obey
“To make any thing very tebe, cbacurey seems in generl wo be
secesary. When we how the fil extent of sy danger, won we
‘hn secusam our eyes iy a great dal of the apprebesion
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vanishes. Every one wil be sensible ofthis, who considers how
{rely ight ads to oar dread all canes of danger nd how
truck the moons of ghats and goblins, of which none can form
‘ear ides, aller minds which ive edt wo the popular tales
‘Smcering wh sr of being. hone despot government, wich
Srelounded un the pasions of met, ad pep upon te passion
ttfean beep thei cies malar may be rom the public eye. The
policy as been the same ia many casero algon” Almost al the
Feten temples mere dark? Even in the barbarous temples ofthe
‘Amesana a hs day, they keep vio ina dark part ofthe but,
Wich consecrated to his work. Fee ths parpoe oo the dra
Jvformed all heir eremonies inthe bosom ofthe darkest wo,
Eoin he shade of he cde and mot spreading cas. No enon
Sere beter to have undertood the stot of Gesghteninge or
“esting eb ting, may ae the expression in thei rongest
git by the re of a judious obscurity, than Milton. His