The Burial-places of Memory: Epic Underworlds in Vergil, Dante, and Milton |
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... heroic catalogue . The bluster of this sort of traditional epic set - piece is part of our enjoyment of it , the mouth - filling names and place names , the recital of high deeds , the lavish descriptions of armor and equipment , are ...
... heroic catalogue . The bluster of this sort of traditional epic set - piece is part of our enjoyment of it , the mouth - filling names and place names , the recital of high deeds , the lavish descriptions of armor and equipment , are ...
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... heroic tra- dition . If " infinite / Man - slaughter " adequately describes the middle books of the Iliad , it tells us nothing of the quiet sublimity of Iliad 24. Most of us will want to include in our conception of " Heroic Virtue ...
... heroic tra- dition . If " infinite / Man - slaughter " adequately describes the middle books of the Iliad , it tells us nothing of the quiet sublimity of Iliad 24. Most of us will want to include in our conception of " Heroic Virtue ...
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... heroic history - bearer with an unnamed peasant , an un- specified representative of humankind , rather like the laborer who makes a brief appearance in the final lines of Paradise Lost . His refusal to name the peasant is not only an ...
... heroic history - bearer with an unnamed peasant , an un- specified representative of humankind , rather like the laborer who makes a brief appearance in the final lines of Paradise Lost . His refusal to name the peasant is not only an ...
Contents
The Easy Descent from Avernus | 17 |
Language and History | 57 |
Traditions and the Individual Talent | 118 |
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Adam Aeneas Aeneid already ancient angels appears attempt become beginning Brunetto Latini calls choice comes Commedia complete course Dante Dante's dark dead death demonic describing discourse divine earth effect epic example experience face fact Fall fallen false fate father fear figure final future give gods hand Heaven Hell hero heroic Homeric human imagination important Inferno instance kind king language light lines living look matter means memory metaphor Milton mind narration narrative nature never Odyssey once origins Paradise Lost passage past perhaps phrase pilgrim poem poet poetry precisely present question reason references relation remarkable reminded repeat Satan seems seen sense shades simply speak speech story suggests surely tell things thir tradition turn University Press Vergil vision voice whole writing