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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 47
... classical epic " but to strike “ a compromise between the classical and the Christian conceptions of poetry " ( 43 ) , with Scipio being " either the instrument of a Christian Providence or the unconscious follower of the three ...
... Classical Background of Par- adise Lost . Urbana : University of Illinois Press . Harrison , E. L. 1984. “ The Aeneid and Carthage . ” In Poetry and Politics in the Age of Augustus , ed . Tony Woodman and David West , 95–115 . Cambridge ...
... Classical and Modern Literature 2 : 33–46 . Rudd , Niall . 1976. Lines of Enquiry : Studies in Latin Poetry . Cambridge : Cambridge Uni- versity Press . Ruether , Rosemary Radford . 1983. Sexism and God - Talk : Toward a Feminist ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Petrarchs Culpa and the Allegory of the Africa | 20 |
Petrarchs Culpa in Gerusalemme liberata | 74 |
Copyright | |
3 other sections not shown