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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... spiritual darkness . This suspension carries no such guarantee of conversion as the phoenix can pledge ; on the contrary , says Augustine , " by being suspended I was the worse killed . ” 39 Accordingly , for him , conversion is sudden ...
... spiritual progress , as well as the grounds for their own presump- tion that spiritual progress is the stuff of epic poetry . Having these two Venuses is like having an angel and a devil at the ear of Everyman , who is consequently torn ...
... spiritual progress is not the story of Gerusalemme liberata . His culpa serves only as a pointer to Everyman's ( whose tale is that of the Chris- tian army in the epic's primary action ) , and the poem leaves him . " Truly fortunate was ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Petrarchs Culpa and the Allegory of the Africa | 20 |
Petrarchs Culpa in Gerusalemme liberata | 74 |
Copyright | |
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