The Burial-places of Memory: Epic Underworlds in Vergil, Dante, and Milton |
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... remains in the here and now , yielding a world of eternal return in an unending cycle of fullness and loss . The scenes on the shield of Achilles , described in the mag- nificent ecphrasis of the eighteenth Iliad , scenes of daily toil ...
... remains in the here and now , yielding a world of eternal return in an unending cycle of fullness and loss . The scenes on the shield of Achilles , described in the mag- nificent ecphrasis of the eighteenth Iliad , scenes of daily toil ...
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... remains , those citizens who afterwards rebuilt it on the ashes left by Attila would have labored in vain . I made me a gibbet of my own house . " The breaking of stone is an important motif in the Commedia simply because Dante realizes ...
... remains , those citizens who afterwards rebuilt it on the ashes left by Attila would have labored in vain . I made me a gibbet of my own house . " The breaking of stone is an important motif in the Commedia simply because Dante realizes ...
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... remains a fact that Paradise Lost is full of significant silence , hesitations , a remarkable diffidence about initiating discourse : Hail holy Light , offspring of Heav'n first - born , Or of th ' Eternal Coeternal beam May I express ...
... remains a fact that Paradise Lost is full of significant silence , hesitations , a remarkable diffidence about initiating discourse : Hail holy Light , offspring of Heav'n first - born , Or of th ' Eternal Coeternal beam May I express ...
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