The Burial-places of Memory: Epic Underworlds in Vergil, Dante, and Milton |
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... tell something is to do something , and something important . Like the distinction between truth and falsehood , the distinction between doing and telling may be a difficult one to make . Perhaps the first question to put to a Homeric ...
... tell something is to do something , and something important . Like the distinction between truth and falsehood , the distinction between doing and telling may be a difficult one to make . Perhaps the first question to put to a Homeric ...
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... telling are not entirely distinct . That secondary epic , and the Aeneid in particular , does not evince the same ... tell once more . " ( 3-4 ) The Odyssey contains nothing quite like this plangent cry . * Aeneas's adjective suggests ...
... telling are not entirely distinct . That secondary epic , and the Aeneid in particular , does not evince the same ... tell once more . " ( 3-4 ) The Odyssey contains nothing quite like this plangent cry . * Aeneas's adjective suggests ...
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... tell , your majesty , You order me to tell and feel once more . But if so great desire Moves you to hear the tale of our disasters , Briefly recalled , the final throes of Troy , However I may shudder at the memory And shrink again in ...
... tell , your majesty , You order me to tell and feel once more . But if so great desire Moves you to hear the tale of our disasters , Briefly recalled , the final throes of Troy , However I may shudder at the memory And shrink again in ...
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