Aesthetics in English Literature

Aesthetics, also spelled esthetics, is the study of theories that apply to the arts in a broad and fundamental way. Aesthetics, which was not used as a term until after the 1750s, has been a matter of thoughtful discussion and disagreement for many centuries. In the Kantian system, although the aesthetics occupies its own distinct space as the self-standing Third Critique, the ethical inhabits it and haunts it, most obviously in the theory of the sublime. Throughout the nineteenth century writers, painters, and musicians allow themselves to be inhabited or haunted by their immediate predecessors and contemporaries; the notion of sympathy is not some vague formula, but amounts to the very 'etat d' esprit that presides over artistic creation as such. About The Author: H. Prasad , having his B.A. (Hons.) from Bihar University, M.A., and M.Phil from Delhi University is a versatile scholar, writer and true thinker having knowledge and mastery over literature, philosophy and culture. A researcher to the core he was a Junior Research Fellow (NET) of UGC and had attended several departmental seminars and symposium.