Translations of the sublime : the early modern reception and dissemination of Longinus' Peri hupsous in rhetoric, the visual arts, architecture and the theatre / edited by Caroline van Eck, Stijn Bussels, Maarten Delbeke and Jürgen Pieters.

Contrary to widely held assumptions, the early modern revival of ps-Longinus' 'On the Sublime' did not begin with the adaptation published by Boileau in 1674; it was not connected solely with the Greek editions that began to appear from 1554; nor was its impact limited to rhetoric and...

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