The Augustinian Epic, Petrarch to MiltonThe Augustinian Epic, Petrarch to Milton rewrites the history of the Renaissance Vergilian epic by incorporating the neo-Latin side of the story alongside the vernacular one, revealing how epics spoke to each other "across the language gap" and together comprised a single, "Augustinian tradition" of epic poetry. Beginning with Petrarch's Africa, Warner offers major new interpretations of Renaissance epics both famous and forgotten—from Milton's Paradise Lost to a Latin Christiad by his near-contemporary, Alexander Ross—thereby shedding new light on the development of the epic genre. For advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars in the fields of Italian, English, and Comparative literatures as well as the Classics and the history of religion and literature. |
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... journey , Augustine conversely furnished the terms for writing Vergilian epic as a personal conversion narrative and , like the Con- fessions , a ministering instrument.1 Thus I call these epics Augustinian not for their theology but ...
... journey of the allegorized Aeneas — an arduous and perilous journey that fallen man is fortunate to have at all by the mercy and grace of God - which Milton invokes explicitly when the Almighty Father prophesies for the Son that the ...
... journey ( as Everyman ) from youth to maturity , from earthly desires to heavenly contemplation , so in relation to Paradise Lost , we can either contrast that journey with Adam and Eve's Edenic journey of regression - Adam originally ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Petrarchs Culpa and the Allegory of the Africa | 20 |
Renaissance Allegories of the Aeneid | 51 |
Copyright | |
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