Pseudo-Longinus: On the Sublime

by Stephen Halliwell

This is the first new edition in English for more than half a century of one of the most influential works in the entire history of aesthetics, the treatise On the Sublime, whose author is unknown but usually called Longinus. It was On the Sublime which was chiefly responsible, in the early modern period, for giving the vocabulary of 'sublimity' the important place which it has held ever since in critical discourse about literature, visual art,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019289420X
• ISBN13: 9780192894205
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 2.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.3"