Under Clouds of Poesy: Poetry and Truth in French and English Reworkings of the Aeneid, 1160-1513 |
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... gods , / They kill us for their sport , " that perhaps best describes the terror of the supernatural in the Aeneid . For Virgil the gods can function as cosmic forces of irrationality and malevolence ; for the poet of the Eneas , it is ...
... gods , / They kill us for their sport , " that perhaps best describes the terror of the supernatural in the Aeneid . For Virgil the gods can function as cosmic forces of irrationality and malevolence ; for the poet of the Eneas , it is ...
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... gods strike Laocoon down . What the mortal interpreters of omens apparently cannot understand is that the gods delight in false appearances . Neptune himself is conspiring against Troy . The death of Laocoon is not in reality set in ...
... gods strike Laocoon down . What the mortal interpreters of omens apparently cannot understand is that the gods delight in false appearances . Neptune himself is conspiring against Troy . The death of Laocoon is not in reality set in ...
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... gods to intrude upon his historic account . With his avowed dependence on the poetic tradition , the redactor of the present version seems to have no difficulty in restoring the gods to a more prominent position , although he too is ...
... gods to intrude upon his historic account . With his avowed dependence on the poetic tradition , the redactor of the present version seems to have no difficulty in restoring the gods to a more prominent position , although he too is ...
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Aeneas Aeneid allegory Amors Anchises Antenor appear argue Augustus avoit battle Bawcutt beginning Benoît Bernardus bien BN f.fr Boccaccio Book Brut Camilla Camille Carthage Casibus Caxton century ceste Chansons de geste chapter commentary cyclic death Dido story Dido's Douglas's Eneas Eneas-poet Eneydos epic episode estoit Evander fact fait fall of Troy French Fulgentius Gavin Douglas Genealogia gods grant Greeks grete hero Histoire ancienne historian Jean de Courcy king lament Latin Lavine lines manuscript marvelous medieval molt narrative notes obviously ordo artificialis ordo naturalis original Ovide Pallas perhaps poet poetic poetry Polydorus Priam prologue prose qu'il queen quod reader reading recount reworking Roman d'Eneas Roman de Troie Rome Salverda de Grave Scota seems seen Servius significance speech Thèbes tion translation Trojans truth Turnus underworld University Press Venus vernacular Virgil Virgil's poem Virgilian William Caxton writes