One treatise on this subject is addressed to Postumius Terentianus and begins by discussing the shortcomings of a similar treatise by Caecilius. That treatise disparages the frigidity of Timaeus and compares the Homer who wrote the Odyssey to the setting sun. This is also the first concept mentioned in the title of an 18th-century work which includes chapters explaining "Why Darkness Is Terrible," "Vastness," and "Terror"; that work was a "philosophical inquiry into the origin of our ideas" of this concept and the concept of the "beautiful." FTP, name this concept discussed by an author known as Longinus and by Edmund Burke, a literary quality which inspires awe and wonder in the reader.
One treatise on this subject is addressed to Postumius Terentianus and begins by discussing the shortcomings of a similar treatise by Caecilius. That treatise disparages the frigidity of Timaeus and compares the Homer who wrote the Odyssey to the setting sun. This is also the first concept mentioned in the title of an 18th-century work which includes chapters explaining "Why Darkness Is Terrible," "Vastness," and "Terror"; that work was a "philosophical inquiry into the origin of our ideas" of this concept and the concept of the "beautiful." FTP, name this concept discussed by an author known as Longinus and by Edmund Burke, a literary quality which inspires awe and wonder in the reader.
One treatise on this subject is addressed to Postumius Terentianus and begins by discussing the shortcomings of a similar treatise by Caecilius.