Understanding the sublime as a figure of speech, La Bruyère says "it only paints truth, in a noble subject; it paints it whole, in its causes & effects; it is a figure of speech only the greatest among the geniuses may master."
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Any work you can recommend that understands this?
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I feel the basis for Homer's poetics is sublime. Pindar would be closer to the idea I just described, because his poetry tends to present the audience with sudden images of extreme power, meant to carry worlds of meaning.
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I am most familiar with Homer and your description of the sublime rings very true, even to the very existence of the two poems themselves. They straddle the limit of consciousness and the modern mind struggles to grasp this. I need to push my Pindar studies further. Thank you!
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