01777cam a22003493u 4500 17957 UtSlPG 20260610133422.0 m cr n 260607r2006||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PA Longinus, active 1st century On the Sublime Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2006 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page on this work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Sublime Release date is 2006-03-10 Produced by Louise Hope, Justin Kerk and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "On the Sublime" by Longinus is a work of literary criticism written in the 1st century AD. This Roman-era Greek treatise explores the elements of powerful writing and aesthetic excellence. Through examples spanning a thousand years of literature, the unknown author examines what elevates prose to the sublime, analyzing both masterful and flawed passages from Greek classics to Biblical texts. The work emphasizes moral excellence, stylistic elevation, and simplicity as essential qualities for great writers, while warning against both excessive luxury and constraints on creative freedom. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Original publication data not identified Rhetoric, Ancient Sublime, The Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 Havell, H. L. (Herbert Lord), -1913 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17957 59343 59343