The Augustinian Epic, Petrarch to MiltonThe Augustinian Epic, Petrarch to Milton rewrites the history of the Renaissance Vergilian epic by incorporating the neo-Latin side of the story alongside the vernacular one, revealing how epics spoke to each other "across the language gap" and together comprised a single, "Augustinian tradition" of epic poetry. Beginning with Petrarch's Africa, Warner offers major new interpretations of Renaissance epics both famous and forgotten—from Milton's Paradise Lost to a Latin Christiad by his near-contemporary, Alexander Ross—thereby shedding new light on the development of the epic genre. For advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars in the fields of Italian, English, and Comparative literatures as well as the Classics and the history of religion and literature. |
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... called love , in that one is the desire of contemplating beauty , the other of begetting it . No one , therefore , unless he is utterly devoid of reason , would dare condemn these two loves , since each is necessary to human nature ...
J. Christopher Warner. ultimately " offers what might be called a recuperation of all the scenes [ before ] , " a " con- version " that “ redeems and replaces the earlier moments of error and confusion " ( 1990 , 127-28 ) . 36. It is ...
... called a bizarre experiment : " poll [ ing ] over fifteen - hun- dred students , from Freshmen and Sophomores in large surveys to Ph.D. candidates in small seminars , " over a period of " fifteen years of teaching Milton at various ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Petrarchs Culpa and the Allegory of the Africa | 20 |
Petrarchs Culpa in Gerusalemme liberata | 74 |
Copyright | |
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