The Burial-places of Memory: Epic Underworlds in Vergil, Dante, and Milton |
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... mind in 31 . But there is much more than inadvertence or a cavalierly an- tihistorical attitude at work in Shakespeare's lines ; they are in fact a signal example of some of the ways the poet manages the burden of the tradition in which ...
... mind in 31 . But there is much more than inadvertence or a cavalierly an- tihistorical attitude at work in Shakespeare's lines ; they are in fact a signal example of some of the ways the poet manages the burden of the tradition in which ...
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... mind can be modified by place ( the proto- pastoral he proposes in 2.390-402 ) , but also his idea of warfare , which is nothing but the repeated attempt to modify the will of the other , an attempt doomed to failure because it ...
... mind can be modified by place ( the proto- pastoral he proposes in 2.390-402 ) , but also his idea of warfare , which is nothing but the repeated attempt to modify the will of the other , an attempt doomed to failure because it ...
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... mind . Yet I think the word is infected by its appearance in canto 5 and that Dante at least did not mind the reminiscence , for all the infernal go - betweens must have a taint of evil about them , the sense of transporting souls ...
... mind . Yet I think the word is infected by its appearance in canto 5 and that Dante at least did not mind the reminiscence , for all the infernal go - betweens must have a taint of evil about them , the sense of transporting souls ...
Contents
The Easy Descent from Avernus | 17 |
Language and History | 57 |
Traditions and the Individual Talent | 118 |
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