On Great Writing (On the Sublime)
10 best books like On Great Writing (On the Sublime) (Longinus): Theogony / Works and Days, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, Poetics, Coplas a la muerte de su padre, Phaedo, The Way Things are, The Odes of Horace, A Defence of Poetry, Daphnis and Chloe, Theophrastus: Characters
Theogony / Works and Days
| Author | Hesiod |
| ISBN | 0192839411 |
| Author | Edmund Burke |
| ISBN | 0192835807 |
Poetics
| Author | Aristotle |
| ISBN | 0140446362 |
In his near-contemporary account of Greek tragedy, Aristotle examines the dramatic elements of plot, character, language and spectacle that combine to produce pity and fear in the audience, and asks why we derive pleasure from this apparently...
| Author | Jorge Manrique |
| ISBN | 9505810059 |
I imagine many of my friends in GR would have never heard of Jorge Manrique de Figueroa. He was foremost a military man but I am writing about him because he was also a poet. Manrique was born around 1440 in the Iberian Peninsula (either in Castile or in northern Andalusia) and came from a...
Phaedo
| Author | Plato |
| ISBN | 0192839535 |
The Way Things are
| Author | Lucretius |
NEVER MIND!
-Bertrand Russell’s Grandmother
(Mocking his Materialist Philosophy)
When I was in my late teens I had a stunning Lucretian prise de conscience that utterly knocked the wind out of my youthful sails. It seemed the overwhelming answer to Eliot’s...
| Author | Horace |
| ISBN | 0374224250 |
| Author | Philip Sidney |
| ISBN | 0199110220 |
"But if - fie of such a but! - you be born so near the dull-making cataract of Nilus, that you cannot hear the planet-like music of poetry; if you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry, or rather,...
| Author | Longus |
| Author | Theophrastus |
| ISBN | 0521839807 |
| Author | Horace |
Non ho la pretesa di effettuare un'analisi profonda e inattaccabile sotto il profilo storico o filosofico: il mio retaggio scolastico impedisce, inevitabilmente, di essere credibile; la stessa goffaggine iniziale, durante il primo approccio, è un'ulteriore conferma...
Libro de Buen Amor
| Author | Juan Ruiz (Arcipreste de Hita) |
| ISBN | 8489163480 |