Longinus, active 1st century creator Lang, Andrew 1844-1912 Havell, H. L. (Herbert Lord) -1913 text utu 2006 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "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.) 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 Original publication data not identified Rhetoric, Ancient Sublime, The PA Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17957 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17957 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133422.0 17957