La relève moderne du sublime lucrétien

Jonathan Pollock (1)

1 CRESEM - Centre de Recherche sur les Sociétés et Environnements en Méditerranées

Lucretius’ 1st century B.C. poem De rerum natura was immensely influential in the genesis of the notion of the sublime in 18th centuryEurope. This influence tends to be eclipsed by that of Longinus and his essay “On the Sublime”, translated by Boileau in 1674. This paper suggests that Longinus himself drew upon Lucretius, before examining the manner in which Edmund Burke and Immanuel Kant used Lucretius in order to elaborate their own theories of the sublime.

Keywords: littérature comparée; Lucrèce; le sublime; etudes textes classiques; analyse littéraire; 18ème siècle

Domains: Literature; Classical studies

Jonathan Pollock. La relève moderne du sublime lucrétien . Comparative Studies in Modernism , 2016, 8. ⟨hal-01386859⟩