| Sumario: | Warton's article delves into the concept of hybridity in response to dualism in Gothic architecture and neoclassicism, focusing on Thomas Warton's poems like "The Pleasures of Melancholy" and "Ode Written at Vale-Royal Abbey." It explores how Warton navigates the opposition between reason and imagination, Classical and Gothic styles, shedding light on cultural understandings of the time. The text also discusses the complexities of regulating enthusiasm and superstition in eighteenth-century aesthetics, referencing works by scholars like Joan Pittock, Edgecombe, and Rielly, as well as John Ruskin's "Stones of Venice" and Edmund Burke's "A Philosophical Enquiry."
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