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| Edmund Burke |
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| 1729–97, British political writer and statesman, b. Dublin, Ireland.… Burke left, in his many and diverse writings, a monumental construction of British political thought that had far-reaching influence in England, America, and France for many years.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Introductory Note from the Harvard Classics.) |
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Pronunciation:  bûrk from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
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- WORKS
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- On Taste
The introductory discourse to the aesthetic treatise On the Sublime and Beautiful. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. XXIV, Part 1.
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- On the Sublime and Beautiful
This aesthetic treatise was an advance in the uniting of philosophy with psychology. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. XXIV, Part 2.
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- Reflections on the French Revolution
The prophetic warning against the pulling down of all that is good in society with the bad. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. XXIV, Part 3.
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- A Letter to a Noble Lord
A personal defense from the master of prosaic irony. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. XXIV, Part 4.
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- Bartlett’s Burke Quotations
Epitomal selections by John Bartlett.
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- Burke, Edmund, 9108 to 9186
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.
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- WRITINGS ABOUT BURKE
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- “Edmund Burke”
Chapter by Herbert J. C. Grierson with bibliography from the Cambridge History of English Literature.
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