The Burial-places of Memory: Epic Underworlds in Vergil, Dante, and Milton |
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... poets treated in the present essays similarly in- terrogate their language , their traditions , and their predecessors in ... poetry Macaulay memorably re- marked that " it acts like an incantation " : Its merit lies less in its obvious ...
... poets treated in the present essays similarly in- terrogate their language , their traditions , and their predecessors in ... poetry Macaulay memorably re- marked that " it acts like an incantation " : Its merit lies less in its obvious ...
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... poet may then represent the past as genuinely past , as over and done with . " One has patience with every kind of ... poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition , and a religion by rev- elation to us , and not the history ...
... poet may then represent the past as genuinely past , as over and done with . " One has patience with every kind of ... poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition , and a religion by rev- elation to us , and not the history ...
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... poetry as naive description , where as a matter of fact it is anything but naive . Dante's poetry is intensely focused on style , on the mode of utterance , and it always asks us to see what a given style means , how it rearranges the ...
... poetry as naive description , where as a matter of fact it is anything but naive . Dante's poetry is intensely focused on style , on the mode of utterance , and it always asks us to see what a given style means , how it rearranges the ...
Contents
The Easy Descent from Avernus | 17 |
Language and History | 57 |
Traditions and the Individual Talent | 118 |
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