Parnassus Revisited: Modern Critical Essays on the Epic TraditionAnthony C. Yu |
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Page 121
... Dante's most significant style patterns , and that they show a new relationship between reader and poet . Indeed , it is difficult to find anything similar in earlier European literature . Formal address to the reader was never used in ...
... Dante's most significant style patterns , and that they show a new relationship between reader and poet . Indeed , it is difficult to find anything similar in earlier European literature . Formal address to the reader was never used in ...
Page 126
... Dante's addresses to the reader is a symptom of a new relationship between both , one which is based on Dante's conception of his own role and function as a poet . With the utmost explicitness and consistency , he maintains the attitude ...
... Dante's addresses to the reader is a symptom of a new relationship between both , one which is based on Dante's conception of his own role and function as a poet . With the utmost explicitness and consistency , he maintains the attitude ...
Page 127
... Dante's readers are summoned to interrupt ( or to continue ) the reading of a book , not a journey through Heaven . For it is not even certain whether , at the moment of this address , Beatrice and Dante have already entered Heaven ...
... Dante's readers are summoned to interrupt ( or to continue ) the reading of a book , not a journey through Heaven . For it is not even certain whether , at the moment of this address , Beatrice and Dante have already entered Heaven ...
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Achilles action Aeneas Aeneid Amile audience bard battle beginning Beowulf Book Byron Cantos character Christ Christian composition criticism Dante Dante's death Dido divine Don Juan dramatic enjambment epic poetry episode epithets example expression fact Faerie Queene fate father feel fight formulas glory gods Greek Grendel Hardré Hector hero Hero and Leander heroic Homeric epic Homeric poems human humiliation Iliad kill kind language lines literary literature Lord meaning Mezentius Milman Parry Milton mind moral narrative narrator nature Odyssey Old Testament oral poet oral poetry Paradise Lost Paradise Regain'd Parry Parry's passage pattern Phaeacians phrase poet's poetic Prelude present Priam prose reader Roman Satan scene seems sense sentence structure simile sing singer song soul Spenser stanza story style suffering tale tells theme things tion Tolstoy tradition Trojans Troy truth Turnus Ulysses verse Virgil vision Whitman words Wordsworth writing
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Dwelling in Possibility: Women Poets and Critics on Poetry Yopie Prins,Maeera Shreiber Limited preview - 1997 |