The Sublime Plurality of Worlds: Lucretius in the Eighteenth Century

Janowitz, Anne

The Sublime Plurality of Worlds: Lucretius in the Eighteenth Century

Resource type

Journal article

Creator (person)

Janowitz, Anne

Date published

2010

Abstract

This paper discusses Lucretian themes in the idea of a ‘cosmic sublime’ in the context of the discourse of the night sky at the end of the seventeenth century and through the eighteenth century

Journal title

Tate Papers

Issue

13

Publisher

Tate

Place of publication

UK

ISSN

1753-9854

Official URL

https://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/tate-papers/13/the-sublime-plurality-of-worlds-lucretius-in-the-eighteenth-century

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In Copyright

Licence

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