Description
This book investigates the similarities and differences between two critics, two books, and two concepts: Longinus Sublime in his On the Sublime (1st or 3rd A.D.) and al-Jurjanis Standard of Poetry in his Mediation between al-Mutanabbi and his Adversaries (10th A.D.). Although much is known about al-Jurjani, his books and his times, almost nothing is known about Longinus: we are not sure who wrote that book, when and where it was written, and even how to translate the title. Al-Jurjani lived at least some seven centuries later and his ideas crystallize Arabic thought on great poetry.
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