The Burial-places of Memory: Epic Underworlds in Vergil, Dante, and Milton |
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... desire for rest , while Aeneas uses it to describe what seems to him an inhuman desire to return to labor and suffering when that rest has already been achieved . Nowhere perhaps are the divine and human perspectives so clearly opposed ...
... desire for rest , while Aeneas uses it to describe what seems to him an inhuman desire to return to labor and suffering when that rest has already been achieved . Nowhere perhaps are the divine and human perspectives so clearly opposed ...
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... desire for nostalgic abandon . We may imagine Vergil's situation as analogous to his hero's and to Dante's historical predicament in addition . For Aeneas's effort is a con- stant struggle to keep moving , a struggle against the ...
... desire for nostalgic abandon . We may imagine Vergil's situation as analogous to his hero's and to Dante's historical predicament in addition . For Aeneas's effort is a con- stant struggle to keep moving , a struggle against the ...
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... desire , but a freeing of desire from its fixation on lesser good so that it may be reinvested in greater , more complete good . Desire for Dante is closely connected with the question of language that we have been examining . Beatrice ...
... desire , but a freeing of desire from its fixation on lesser good so that it may be reinvested in greater , more complete good . Desire for Dante is closely connected with the question of language that we have been examining . Beatrice ...
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The Easy Descent from Avernus | 17 |
Language and History | 57 |
Traditions and the Individual Talent | 118 |
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