The Burial-places of Memory: Epic Underworlds in Vergil, Dante, and Milton |
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... surely important in context that in one sense Eumaeus's response to the yarn is upside down or backward : he firmly disbelieves what is undoubtedly true in the narrative and appears to believe what is undoubtedly false . He has had ...
... surely important in context that in one sense Eumaeus's response to the yarn is upside down or backward : he firmly disbelieves what is undoubtedly true in the narrative and appears to believe what is undoubtedly false . He has had ...
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... surely intended to remind us of the Achilles of the Iliad , it does not follow that the poet himself has suddenly forgotten the problem of repetition and premature endings . In describing the act of Aeneas plunging his sword into the ...
... surely intended to remind us of the Achilles of the Iliad , it does not follow that the poet himself has suddenly forgotten the problem of repetition and premature endings . In describing the act of Aeneas plunging his sword into the ...
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... surely kept at a distance at the same time he is required to yield up his riches . We must remember that nothing is ever wasted in Dante's world , although much is necessarily incomplete without the notion of an all - embracing God who ...
... surely kept at a distance at the same time he is required to yield up his riches . We must remember that nothing is ever wasted in Dante's world , although much is necessarily incomplete without the notion of an all - embracing God who ...
Contents
The Easy Descent from Avernus | 17 |
Language and History | 57 |
Traditions and the Individual Talent | 118 |
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