Books like On the sublime by Longinus

Plato’s dialogue ‘Gorgias’ explores the nature of rhetoric, love, and ethics through debate between Gorgias, Polus, and Callicles, illustrating early Greek philosophical thought.

The original, authoritative collection of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s early essays, including all revisions he made after first publication.

A collection of thirty concise character sketches by Theophrastus, each illustrating a single fault, alongside newly translated mime fragments from Sophron and anonymous sources, offering insight into Hellenistic portraiture and the comedic tradition.

"In this book, Robert Doran offers the first in-depth treatment of the major theories of the sublime, from the ancient Greek treatise On the Sublime (attributed to 'Longinus') and its reception in early modern literary theory to the philosophical accounts of Burke and Kant. Doran explains how and why the sublime became a key concept of modern thought and shows how the various theories of sublimity are united by a common structure - the paradoxical experience of being at once overwhelmed and exalted - and a common concern: the preservation of a notion of transcendence in the face of the secularization of modern culture. Combining intellectual history with literary theory and philosophical analysis, his book provides a new, searching and multilayered account of a concept that continues to stimulate thought about our responses to art, nature and human events"--Publisher description.

A concise examination of Edgar Allan Poe’s famous poem "The Raven" and its principles of artistic structure, analyzing how the work exemplifies poetic form, rhetorical strategy, and elements of supernatural and Gothic aesthetics.