The Burial-places of Memory: Epic Underworlds in Vergil, Dante, and Milton |
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Page 70
... precisely to deprive him of the dignity of his historical destiny ( the sort of dignity that his own poem also continually praises ) , of his investment of himself in history , an investment with which one enters on the road to ...
... precisely to deprive him of the dignity of his historical destiny ( the sort of dignity that his own poem also continually praises ) , of his investment of himself in history , an investment with which one enters on the road to ...
Page 72
... precisely in the opposite direction , as Dante resubmits frozen images to the heat of history , melting them down and recirculating them , testing them against the strain that history puts upon them . We have already seen the figure of ...
... precisely in the opposite direction , as Dante resubmits frozen images to the heat of history , melting them down and recirculating them , testing them against the strain that history puts upon them . We have already seen the figure of ...
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... precisely with his " fair speech , " can lead the pilgrim back to history . It is also a foreshadowing , in the way it transports Vergil and the action of his poem into the flow of Italian terza rima , of the way in which Dante will ...
... precisely with his " fair speech , " can lead the pilgrim back to history . It is also a foreshadowing , in the way it transports Vergil and the action of his poem into the flow of Italian terza rima , of the way in which Dante will ...
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The Easy Descent from Avernus | 17 |
Language and History | 57 |
Traditions and the Individual Talent | 118 |
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