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Longinus literature - On the Sublime A Brief Summary | | Longinus literature - On the Sublime A Brief Summary: Encyclopedia II - Longinus literature - On the Sublime A Brief Summary | | The treatise itself is dedicated to “Posthumius Terentianus,” a cultured Roman and public figure, though little else is known of him (Roberts 19). On the Sublime is a compendium of literary exemplars, around 50 authors spanning 1000 years (Roberts 26). Along with the expected examples from Homer and other figures of Greek culture, Longinus refers to a passage from Genesis, which is quite unusual for the first century:
A similar effect was achieved by the lawgiver of the Jews — no mean genius, for he both unde ...
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Longinus literature - On the Sublime A Brief Summary
The treatise itself is dedicated to “Posthumius Terentianus,” a cultured Roman and public figure, though little else is known of him (Roberts 19). On the Sublime is a compendium of literary exemplars, around 50 authors spanning 1000 years (Roberts 26). Along with the expected examples from Homer and other figures of Greek culture, Longinus refers to a passage from Genesis, which is quite unusual for the first century:
A similar effect was achieved by the lawgiver of the Jews — no mean genius, for he both understood and gave expression to the power of the divinity as it deserved — when he wrote at the very beginning of his laws, and I quote his words: "God said" — what was it? — "'Let there be light.' And there was. 'Let there be earth.' And there was."
Longinus critically praises and blames these literary works as examples of good or bad styles of writing (Roberst 6). Longinus ultimately promotes an “elevation of style” (Roberts 11) and an essence of “simplicity” (Brody 91). To quote the famous author, “the first and most important source of sublimity [is] the power of forming great conceptions” (Brody 54). The concept of the sublime is generally accepted to refer to a style of writing that elevates itself “above the ordinary” (“Longinus” 135). Finally, Longinus sets out five sources of sublimity: “great thoughts, strong emotions, certain figures of thought and speech, noble diction, and dignified word arrangement” (“Longinus” 136).
Other related archivesA Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, Baroque, Basel, Boileau, Edmund Burke, Francis Robortello, Genesis, On the Sublime, Romantic, copyist, medieval, rhetoric, sublime
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