det sublime

at kunne undres og bevæges uden bagtanke og uden forventning om nytte

notat til bearbejdelse:

Longinus. On the Sublime dates to approximately 200 c.e. and contains seventeen chapters on figures and styles of rhetoric.
Some of the works from which Longinus quotes, such as those of the poet Sappho, preserve text that would otherwise be lost.

On the Sublime is intended as a response to Calacte, a Sicilian rhetorician. The sublime is a form of language that transports the
mind and soul to the realm of great art. Longinus believed in the mind/soul duality, as the poet must use lofty thoughts as well as
powerful emotions. Style is inseparable from the sublimity of the message, and Loginus lists various figures, schemes, and tropes
that can be used in the service of style to attain the sublime.

citat fra Critical Theory a-z www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/critical/longinus.htm