The Burial-places of Memory: Epic Underworlds in Vergil, Dante, and Milton |
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... matter of prophecy for the hero is a matter of history for the reader ) , " it is characteristic of Vergil that he never forgets the pathos and loss involved when the discourse of fate overrides , as it must , the compellingly human ...
... matter of prophecy for the hero is a matter of history for the reader ) , " it is characteristic of Vergil that he never forgets the pathos and loss involved when the discourse of fate overrides , as it must , the compellingly human ...
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... matter of the Commedia is never very close to what Francis Fergusson , speaking of nineteenth - century drama ... matters as if they existed and eschewed the Vergilian device of calling them into question , so that constantly in his poem ...
... matter of the Commedia is never very close to what Francis Fergusson , speaking of nineteenth - century drama ... matters as if they existed and eschewed the Vergilian device of calling them into question , so that constantly in his poem ...
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... matter of choice ) and the founding of erroneous tra- ditions , those vitrified choices whose initial moments have been forgotten or suppressed , so that they have come to be treated as part of the way things are , as rerum natura , not ...
... matter of choice ) and the founding of erroneous tra- ditions , those vitrified choices whose initial moments have been forgotten or suppressed , so that they have come to be treated as part of the way things are , as rerum natura , not ...
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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