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On the Sublime

by Longinus

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On the Sublime asks what makes writing overwhelming rather than merely correct, and answers with grandeur of conception, strong feeling, figures, diction and arrangement — illustrated from Homer, Sappho and Genesis. It is the most generous work of criticism to survive from antiquity.

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