Longinus — On the Sublime

An ancient treatise on the sources of grandeur and elevation in literature, attributed to 'Longinus.' It shifted attention from technique to the power of great writing to transport the reader.

Sources for Longinus — On the Sublime

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• https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17957
• https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-works-of-dionysius-l_longinus_1712

Longinus — On the Sublime in Rhetoric

Held in the Rhetoric chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.

• Aristotle — Rhetoric (−330)
• Cicero — De Oratore (On the Orator) (−55)
• Quintilian — Institutio Oratoria (The Orator's Education) (95)
• Demosthenes — The Public Orations (−323)
• Augustine — De Doctrina Christiana (On Christian Doctrine) (397)
• Vico — The New Science (1725)
• Blair — Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres (1783)