The Burial-places of Memory: Epic Underworlds in Vergil, Dante, and Milton |
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... fact a signal example of some of the ways the poet manages the burden of the tradition in which he finds himself working . We willingly revise our first assumption — that Shakespeare is alluding to the Aeneid through the person of ...
... fact a signal example of some of the ways the poet manages the burden of the tradition in which he finds himself working . We willingly revise our first assumption — that Shakespeare is alluding to the Aeneid through the person of ...
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... fact at the very heart of his life , and not only the life he vouchsafes to tell us in the lines of the Commedia but also the life we can glean from other sources as well . Consider only the best known facts about his career : a ...
... fact at the very heart of his life , and not only the life he vouchsafes to tell us in the lines of the Commedia but also the life we can glean from other sources as well . Consider only the best known facts about his career : a ...
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... fact possess it through an apparent accident of birth . Statius's admitted lack of courage only serves to make Vergil seem the more quietly heroic , the more selfless , one who has sacrificed himself for others , in fact the embodiment ...
... fact possess it through an apparent accident of birth . Statius's admitted lack of courage only serves to make Vergil seem the more quietly heroic , the more selfless , one who has sacrificed himself for others , in fact the embodiment ...
Contents
The Easy Descent from Avernus | 17 |
Language and History | 57 |
Traditions and the Individual Talent | 118 |
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