Longinus' On the Sublime

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gptkbp:instanceOf literary treatise
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs gptkb:On_the_Sublime
gptkb:Peri_Hypsous
gptkbp:author gptkb:Longinus
gptkbp:dateWritten 1st century CE
gptkbp:discusses gptkb:Homer
gptkb:Plato
gptkb:Sappho
gptkb:Demosthenes
Euripides
gptkbp:firstPrintedLocation Basel
gptkbp:firstPublished 1554
gptkbp:focusesOn musical composition
passion
diction
rhetorical techniques
figures of speech
artistic skill
arrangement of words
dignity of expression
elevation of style
emotional impact of literature
greatness of soul
imagination in writing
imitating great authors
natural genius
noble thoughts
gptkbp:genre literary criticism
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Longinus' On the Sublime
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Alexander_Pope
gptkb:Immanuel_Kant
gptkb:John_Milton
gptkb:Romanticism
gptkb:Edmund_Burke
gptkb:Nicolas_Boileau-Despréaux
18th-century aesthetics
Renaissance literary theory
gptkbp:language gptkb:Ancient_Greek
gptkbp:mainTheme effects of sublime writing
sources of literary greatness
gptkbp:preservedIn gptkb:Codex_Parisinus_Graecus_2036
gptkbp:significance major work of classical literary criticism
gptkbp:structure fragmentary
gptkbp:subject sublimity in literature
gptkbp:survivingWorks incomplete
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Aristotle's_Poetics
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6