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100 1 _aLonginus, active 1st century
245 1 0 _aOn the Sublime
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2006
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aWikipedia page on this work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Sublime
500 _aRelease date is 2006-03-10
508 _aProduced by Louise Hope, Justin Kerk and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
520 _a"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.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aRhetoric, Ancient
653 _aSublime, The
700 1 _aLang, Andrew,
_d1844-1912
700 1 _aHavell, H. L.
_q(Herbert Lord),
_d-1913
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17957
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