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On the Sublime
Longinus' On the Sublime resembles many ancient works of rhetorical theory and differs from modern literary criticism in that it is addressed to an audience of practitioners rather than passive...
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On the Sublime
The reason why the author of On the Sublime (who more than likely is not Longinus, according to historians) sheds a light on the production itself rather than the poet is because of a term that the...
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On the Sublime
One example of the sublime in poetry is Epithalamion by Edmund Spenser. Since this is a long and immensly complex poem, the poems in his sonnet cycle will serve equally well as examples of the...
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On the Sublime
This is a piece of early literary criticism which deals in particular with the very vexing question of whether a writer is able to learn their trade through application and hard work, or whether...
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On the Sublime
The focus of this work, supposedly written by Longinus, although the majority of critics believe that it would have been another author who penned this work of early criticism, is the...
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On the Sublime
Not every work is extraordinary. Longinus, in On the Sublime, has given detailed account of the sources that make any work of art sublime. Sublimity refers to greatness and excellence. One of the...
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On the Sublime
when we know that the sounds of a harp, ... in symphony, often lay a wonderful spell on an audience ... can we doubt that composition (being a kind of harmony of that language which nature has...
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On the Sublime
Longinus wrote in the Classic Greek period. Longinus cannot be properly identified. It is thought he was actually a Greek master of rhetoric, though, for simplicity, the writer is consistently...
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On the Sublime
What Longinius does in this early work of ancient criticism is to define the sublime as an ideal that all authors should aspire to reach through their skill. What he outlines are the five sources...
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On the Sublime
In his work On The Sublime (Peri Hypsous), Longinus (or often called as pseudo-Longinus because of doubts of authorship) gives 5 sources of sublimity. These five sources are warranted for a work to...
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John Dryden
The treatise of Longinus is widely regarded as being the first ever piece of literary criticism, and, as such, is therefore to be recognised as a key influence to other later critics such as Sir...
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On the Sublime
Longinus, in his treatise On the Sublime defines the main topic of its writing as a certain distinction and excellence in expression. Longinus explains that, for something to be categorized as...
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On the Sublime
One of the hallmarks of good criticism is the use of a number of different examples to prove the points of the author. This is something that is clearly evident in this treatise, as Longinus refers...
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On the Sublime
This is an interesting statement to consider, because psychology as a discipline and an approach was something that had not been conceived of at all at the time of writing of this text, and it...
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On the Sublime
False sublimity is any writing that has the outward appearance of sublimity whilst not succeeding in transporting the reader through real, genuine elevated language. For Longinus, any writing that...
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On the Sublime
Longinus, in Section XV of his treatise, argues that figurative langauge, done well, can play a vital part in the creation of sublimity. This is a very interesting example of how Longinus argues...
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On the Sublime
The aesthetic importance of sublimity is discussed by Longinus in Section IX of his treatise. In this section Longinus discusses the first essential source of elevated language, which, in his...
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On the Sublime
This is an intriguing question to consider because Longinus in his treatise opens up the debate about whether achieving excellence in literature (which he defines as sublimity) is a result of...
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On the Sublime
Frigidity is a characteristic that Longinus sees as an enemy of sublime literature. Writers achieve frigidity when, while they "aim at the uncommon and elaborate and most of all at the attractive,...
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On the Sublime
If this treatise is about sublimity and how to achieve it, Longinus arguably spends at least as much time talking about the various pitfalls that there are for the writer who strives to achieve...
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On the Sublime
This is a very interesting question to consider, because of course the writer of this text wrote it about 1600 years before the term Romanticism was even heard of or conceived. Yet it is right to...
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On the Sublime
Longinus turns his attention to passion in Section XIII of this treatise. He takes the view that passion is definitely not synonymous with sublime literature. He argues that some passions can be...
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On the Sublime
Longinus argues that the test of excellence in literature is whether it achieves the status of being sublime. He further goes on to describe what he means by this word by saying that sublime...
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On the Sublime
According to Longinus, author of the treatise On the Sublime (Περὶὕψους) who lived in the 1st or 3rd century AD, there are two different sources of sublimity: inborn sources and...
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On the Sublime
On the Sublime, a work that recent (post-2000) scholarship has argued should indeed be attributed to the leading ancient philologist, Longinus, is essentially a rhetorical treatise, giving writers...
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On the Sublime
In "On the Sublime" by Longinus, sublimity is the eventual effect towards which writers strive, and is defined primarily in terms of the reader's response to the work as a combination of emotional...
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On the Sublime
Longinus, in his essay “On the Sublime,” advocated a theory of speech and writing that emphasized the goal of sublimity – that is, loftiness, elevation, inspiration. Longinus believed that...
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On the Sublime
"You will yourself, friend, in accordance with your nature and with what is fitting, join me in appraising each detail with the utmost regard for truth; for he answered well who, when asked in...
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On the Sublime
Longinus equates sublimity with elevation of the soul and attributes the presence of elevation to five sources, further asserting that the sublime elevates the audience's souls and originates in...
