Secularcompositionsand translations in prose also came into prominence in the last quarter of the 14th century, though their stylistic accomplishment does not always match that of the religious tradition. Chaucer’s “Tale of Melibeus” and his two astronomical translations, theTreatise on the Astrola...
The 1st-century GreektreatiseOn the Sublime(conventionally attributed to the 3rd-century Longinus) deals with the question left unanswered by Aristotle—what makes great literature “great”? Its standards are almost entirely expressive. Where Aristotle isanalyticaland states general principles, the pseudo...
LONGMORE, Sir Thomas (1816-95), Surgeon General, C.B., F.R.C.S.E., served in Crimea; Professor of Army Surgery, Netley (from 1863); Hon. Surgeon to Queen Victoria (from 1868); author of Treatise on Gunshot Wounds; Treatise on Ambulances; and Sanitary Condition of the British and ...
(see also Flemish art); in the music of Josquin des Prez, Orlando di Lasso, Peter Benoit, and César Franck; in the dramas of Maurice Maeterlinck and Michel de Ghelderode and the novels of Georges Simenon and Marguerite Yourcenar (see also Belgian literature); in the films of Chantal ...
(1907–15; abridged ed., The New Golden Bough, 1964), a famous and influential treatise on ancient religion that presents sacrifice as a means for rejuvenating a god; and Henri Hubert and Marcel Mauss,“Essai sur la nature et la fonction du sacrifice,” L’Année sociologique (1899; Eng...
(a brother of the theologian al-Ghazālī), whose subtle, epigrammatical style was imitated in the 15th century by Jāmī in hisLawaʾiḥ("Flashes [of Light]"), atreatiseonSufism. Suhrawardī, a highly original 12th-century thinker in the traditions of both Aristotelian philosophy and ...
in England’s first Neoclassical literarytreatise,The Defence of Poesie(written c. 1578–83, published 1595), candidly admitted that “the old song [i.e., ballad] of Percy and Douglas” would move his heart “more than with a trumpet,” and hisArcadia(final version published in 1593) is...
Arches may rest on light supports, however, where they occur in a row, because the thrust of one arch counteracts the thrust of its neighbours, and the system will remain stable as long as the arches at either end of the row are buttressed by walls, piers, or earth. The size of ...
Three figures of encyclopaedic learning dominate the literature of the 6th and 7th centuries. In the course of his long retirement from a career in public service under the Ostrogothic kings in Italy,Cassiodoruscombinedzealouspreservation of the literature of the classical past with an enormously ...
Anne Bradstreet’s poetic style derived from a long line of British poets, including Spenser and Sidney, while Taylor was in the tradition of such Metaphysical poets as George Herbert and John Donne. Both the content and form of the literature of this first century in America were thus ...