TY - BOOK AU - Longinus,active 1st century AU - Lang,Andrew AU - Havell,H.L. TI - On the Sublime AV - PA PY - 2006/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Rhetoric, Ancient KW - Sublime, The N1 - 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 N2 - "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.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17957 ER -