The Burial-places of Memory: Epic Underworlds in Vergil, Dante, and Milton |
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... Satanic nostalgia founds pastoral poetry , so Satanic defiance founds heroic poetry . Consider Satan's first utterance in Hell , which is , according to Milton's fictional scheme , among the inaugural words of the heroic idiom : If thou ...
... Satanic nostalgia founds pastoral poetry , so Satanic defiance founds heroic poetry . Consider Satan's first utterance in Hell , which is , according to Milton's fictional scheme , among the inaugural words of the heroic idiom : If thou ...
Page 154
... Satan's " degradation ” in the course of the action seems part of the turn from military matters to the more ... Satan as “ a thing that peers in . . . win- dows , " but it is certain that the heroic pageantry of which the first two ...
... Satan's " degradation ” in the course of the action seems part of the turn from military matters to the more ... Satan as “ a thing that peers in . . . win- dows , " but it is certain that the heroic pageantry of which the first two ...
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... Satan's thoughts “ inflam'd of highest design , " of his soaring flight " Up to the fiery concave tow'ring high " ( 2.630 , 635 ) . But it is not an accident that Satan is compared to a trading fleet in the simile that follows : As when ...
... Satan's thoughts “ inflam'd of highest design , " of his soaring flight " Up to the fiery concave tow'ring high " ( 2.630 , 635 ) . But it is not an accident that Satan is compared to a trading fleet in the simile that follows : As when ...
Contents
The Easy Descent from Avernus | 17 |
Language and History | 57 |
Traditions and the Individual Talent | 118 |
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