The Purpose of Praise: Past and Future in The Lusiads of Luís de CamõesKing's College, 1983 - 19 pages |
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... human and divine . But his choice of the Olympian divinities - unique in Renaissance epic , though common in Renaissance pastoral - allows him to reconcile disparate moods and elements in a symbolically coherent whole . The " divine ...
... human and divine . But his choice of the Olympian divinities - unique in Renaissance epic , though common in Renaissance pastoral - allows him to reconcile disparate moods and elements in a symbolically coherent whole . The " divine ...
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... humanity " by giving them the amorous company of her nymphs . The erotic revels of the nymphs and mariners in the Arcadian setting of this locus amoenus can be seen , on one level , as a crude wish - fulfilment , an extended fantasy ...
... humanity " by giving them the amorous company of her nymphs . The erotic revels of the nymphs and mariners in the Arcadian setting of this locus amoenus can be seen , on one level , as a crude wish - fulfilment , an extended fantasy ...
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... human society will be perfected , in a historical pattern which reverses the traditional sequence of decline , looking upward and onward to a time of cyclical regeneration . Many Renaissance poets used this Virgilian model to flatter a ...
... human society will be perfected , in a historical pattern which reverses the traditional sequence of decline , looking upward and onward to a time of cyclical regeneration . Many Renaissance poets used this Virgilian model to flatter a ...
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Acteon Aeneas Aeniad Arcadian Arquivos do Centro associated Augustus Caesar base love Boy King Brazilian C. R. Boxer Canto celebration Centro Cultural Português Christian contrast corruption Couto critical Cupid deeds denounces Diogo do Couto's divine Eclogue Eduardo Lourenço Elegy embodies empire Estrutura Fanshawe Faria e Sousa's future Gama's voyage golden age Helder Macedo humanist ideal Ilha dos Amores imperial India infernal darkness Island of Love Island of Venus João de Barros Jorge de Sena King's kingdom legends Lisbon Literatura Portuguesa London Luís de Camões Luís de Sousa Lusíadas Lusiads mariners messianic moral myth mythical nation neo-platonic nymphs op.cit Paris past pastoral regret perspective poem poet poet's Portugal Portugal's Professor Boxer prophetic redemptive restoration of harmony role Sebastian Sebastião Silenus sing soldier song Sousa Rebelo spirit stanzas Stephen Reckert symbolic Tethys theme Tityrus traditional Vasco da Gama Virgil Virgilian vision vós vossos world's disorder