Under Clouds of Poesy: Poetry and Truth in French and English Reworkings of the Aeneid, 1160-1513 |
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... reader would have agreed with Benoît that it is his own account that is the true one . The ever - ingenious Bernardus has contrived an argument whereby Dares ' De Excidio Troiae Historia is completely compatible with Virgil's Aeneid ...
... reader would have agreed with Benoît that it is his own account that is the true one . The ever - ingenious Bernardus has contrived an argument whereby Dares ' De Excidio Troiae Historia is completely compatible with Virgil's Aeneid ...
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... reader ; Douglas , no less than Boccaccio , yanks back the poetic veil to reveal pure sentence : " Se , quhou blynd ... readers directly in the point of the exemplum , to force them to realize that the peril to which the Virgilian ...
... reader ; Douglas , no less than Boccaccio , yanks back the poetic veil to reveal pure sentence : " Se , quhou blynd ... readers directly in the point of the exemplum , to force them to realize that the peril to which the Virgilian ...
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... reader 65 In discussing the prologue as an after - the - fact reflection , it seems to me that Bawcutt makes a crucial mistake . The prologue cannot be so cleanly separated from the text ; and it is the reaction of Douglas's reader ...
... reader 65 In discussing the prologue as an after - the - fact reflection , it seems to me that Bawcutt makes a crucial mistake . The prologue cannot be so cleanly separated from the text ; and it is the reaction of Douglas's reader ...
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