The Burial-places of Memory: Epic Underworlds in Vergil, Dante, and Milton |
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... surely important in context that in one sense Eumaeus's response to the yarn is upside down or backward : he firmly disbelieves what is undoubtedly true in the narrative and appears to believe what is undoubtedly false . He has had ...
... surely important in context that in one sense Eumaeus's response to the yarn is upside down or backward : he firmly disbelieves what is undoubtedly true in the narrative and appears to believe what is undoubtedly false . He has had ...
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... surely intended to remind us of the Achilles of the Iliad , it does not follow that the poet himself has suddenly forgotten the problem of repetition and premature endings . In describing the act of Aeneas plunging his sword into the ...
... surely intended to remind us of the Achilles of the Iliad , it does not follow that the poet himself has suddenly forgotten the problem of repetition and premature endings . In describing the act of Aeneas plunging his sword into the ...
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... surely to invite skepticism , quite as much as it is to indulge in diction such as this : So Hills amid the Air encounter'd Hills Hurl'd to and fro with jaculation dire , That under ground they fought in dismal shade . ( 664-66 ) But ...
... surely to invite skepticism , quite as much as it is to indulge in diction such as this : So Hills amid the Air encounter'd Hills Hurl'd to and fro with jaculation dire , That under ground they fought in dismal shade . ( 664-66 ) But ...
Contents
The Easy Descent from Avernus | 17 |
Language and History | 57 |
Traditions and the Individual Talent | 118 |
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