The Burial-places of Memory: Epic Underworlds in Vergil, Dante, and Milton |
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... Vergil's supposed exploits project is precisely magical , a world where problems can be solved without difficulty , where the present can be controlled and the future avoided because it can be so easily predicted by the mere opening of ...
... Vergil's supposed exploits project is precisely magical , a world where problems can be solved without difficulty , where the present can be controlled and the future avoided because it can be so easily predicted by the mere opening of ...
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... Vergil , fall by the way , but without which one cannot even begin the journey . It is always a temptation for the mind to try to escape history , and it is precisely this temptation that Dante and the figure of Vergil in the Commedia ...
... Vergil , fall by the way , but without which one cannot even begin the journey . It is always a temptation for the mind to try to escape history , and it is precisely this temptation that Dante and the figure of Vergil in the Commedia ...
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... Vergil's Aeneid ( Berkeley : University of California Press , 1976 ) , particularly the first chapter , “ Eliot's Myth and Vergil's Fictions . " 19 Vergil's revision of the heroic code he found in the Homeric poems has become a critical ...
... Vergil's Aeneid ( Berkeley : University of California Press , 1976 ) , particularly the first chapter , “ Eliot's Myth and Vergil's Fictions . " 19 Vergil's revision of the heroic code he found in the Homeric poems has become a critical ...
Contents
The Easy Descent from Avernus | 17 |
Language and History | 57 |
Traditions and the Individual Talent | 118 |
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