The Burial-places of Memory: Epic Underworlds in Vergil, Dante, and Milton |
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... give the aid that only an earlier poet can give a later , an earlier poet who has already worked out a diction capable of making profound ( if ultimately incomplete ) sense of the universe . Thus , what Beatrice means by Vergil's parola ...
... give the aid that only an earlier poet can give a later , an earlier poet who has already worked out a diction capable of making profound ( if ultimately incomplete ) sense of the universe . Thus , what Beatrice means by Vergil's parola ...
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... gives fuller significance , just as the tradition in which he participates does not deny instinct , but rather turns it to its ... give them a history , or to restore a history which they have lost , to open them to the pressures 96 Dante.
... gives fuller significance , just as the tradition in which he participates does not deny instinct , but rather turns it to its ... give them a history , or to restore a history which they have lost , to open them to the pressures 96 Dante.
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... give them to his servants . He will take the tenth of your grain and of your vineyards and give it to his officers and his servants . He will take .... " Samuel ends this distressing list with an admonition that will be familiar to ...
... give them to his servants . He will take the tenth of your grain and of your vineyards and give it to his officers and his servants . He will take .... " Samuel ends this distressing list with an admonition that will be familiar to ...
Contents
The Easy Descent from Avernus | 17 |
Language and History | 57 |
Traditions and the Individual Talent | 118 |
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