The Burial-places of Memory: Epic Underworlds in Vergil, Dante, and Milton |
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... speech of the god and the speech of the man is an example as clear as we could wish of the contrast between the discourse of fate and ordinary human discourse . The Odyssey simply does not deal with contrasts of this depth , which is ...
... speech of the god and the speech of the man is an example as clear as we could wish of the contrast between the discourse of fate and ordinary human discourse . The Odyssey simply does not deal with contrasts of this depth , which is ...
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... speech is also highly allusive . Some of it is taken from ancient historiography , some from the Pharsalia of Lucan , and occasionally we can hear an apocalyptic murmur , a brief " forewhispering " of the loud cries for the vengeance of ...
... speech is also highly allusive . Some of it is taken from ancient historiography , some from the Pharsalia of Lucan , and occasionally we can hear an apocalyptic murmur , a brief " forewhispering " of the loud cries for the vengeance of ...
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... speech in the first place . The reminder of the source of speech seriously compromises Francesca's attempt to promote her experience and its retelling to the status of the natural or inevitable . 17 I am indebted once again to John ...
... speech in the first place . The reminder of the source of speech seriously compromises Francesca's attempt to promote her experience and its retelling to the status of the natural or inevitable . 17 I am indebted once again to John ...
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