It is a style of “loftiness,” something we experience through words. It is accessed through rhetoric, the devices of speech and poetry. For him, the sublime describes the heights in language and thought. In the third century, Longinus inaugurated the literary idea and tradition of the sublime in his treatise Peri Hypsous ( On the Sublime). As Weiskel puts it, “We cannot conceive of a literal sublime.” The sublime is one of our large metaphors. The Oxford English Dictionary also describes the effects of the sublime as crushing or engulfing, something that cannot be resisted. “The essential claim of the sublime,” Thomas Weiskel asserts in The Romantic Sublime (1986), “is that man can, in feeling and in speech, transcend the human.” The sublime instills a feeling of awe in us, which can be terrifying.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines the sublime as “Set or raised aloft, high up.” The word derives from the Latin sublimus, a combination of sub (up to) and limen (lintel, the top piece of a door) and suggests nobility and majesty, the ultimate height, a soaring grandeur, as in a skyscraper or a mountain, or as in a dizzying feeling, a heroic deed, a spiritual attainment, a poetic expression-something that takes us beyond ourselves, something boundless, the transporting blow.
The following definition of the term the sublime is reprinted from A Poet's Glossary by Edward Hirsch. The sublime is a moment or description of something deeply transcendent or awe-inspiring in a poem.
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