The Burial-places of Memory: Epic Underworlds in Vergil, Dante, and Milton |
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... Hell fixed in time and space ( " As far remov'd from God and light of Heav'n / As from the Center thrice to th ' utmost Pole " [ 1.73-74 ] ) , Milton nevertheless sug- gests a Hell that is a region of the mind , the very creation of the ...
... Hell fixed in time and space ( " As far remov'd from God and light of Heav'n / As from the Center thrice to th ' utmost Pole " [ 1.73-74 ] ) , Milton nevertheless sug- gests a Hell that is a region of the mind , the very creation of the ...
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... Hell behind : Which way I fly is Hell ; myself am Hell ; And in the lowest deep a lower deep Still threat'ning to devour me opens wide , To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heav'n . ( 4.75-78 ) This identification of the container with ...
... Hell behind : Which way I fly is Hell ; myself am Hell ; And in the lowest deep a lower deep Still threat'ning to devour me opens wide , To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heav'n . ( 4.75-78 ) This identification of the container with ...
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... Hell , no more than Orpheus could ultimately bring back Eurydice from the dead , no more than Achilles ' delight in a lyre could prevent the death of Patroklos . But there is a good deal of Miltonic anxiety in this notion of suspending Hell ...
... Hell , no more than Orpheus could ultimately bring back Eurydice from the dead , no more than Achilles ' delight in a lyre could prevent the death of Patroklos . But there is a good deal of Miltonic anxiety in this notion of suspending Hell ...
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The Easy Descent from Avernus | 17 |
Language and History | 57 |
Traditions and the Individual Talent | 118 |
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