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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... poetic narrative of a conver- sion " ( 1978 , 272 ) . The framing poems try to claim that the poet has " reached the vantage point from which a structure of intelligibility can be imposed on the temporal fragmentation of the self ...
... poet is established . So it proves , for in passing from the in vita to the in morte portion of the Canzoniere , we discover ( in no . 321 ) that the phoenix symbolizes both the burning desire that Laura instills in the poet and her ...
... poet and pious reader . With far more confidence than Petrarch that his epic is doing God's work , in other words , Milton rejects Petrarch's conception of the poet as an anxious Christian pilgrim pursuing a negative via perhaps to ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Petrarchs Culpa and the Allegory of the Africa | 20 |
Petrarchs Culpa in Gerusalemme liberata | 74 |
Copyright | |
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