The Burial-places of Memory: Epic Underworlds in Vergil, Dante, and Milton |
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Page 106
... beginning with the text of the Aeneid , to turn them into things , to make them point only to the self . This is why neither the figure of Vergil nor the text of the Aeneid escapes the consequences of Dante's refusal to accord mere tem ...
... beginning with the text of the Aeneid , to turn them into things , to make them point only to the self . This is why neither the figure of Vergil nor the text of the Aeneid escapes the consequences of Dante's refusal to accord mere tem ...
Page 140
... beginning of Book 3 and Urania at the beginning of Book 7. He is wary of imitating a pagan act ( there was a Urania among " the Muses nine , " he knows ) , of calling up the same powers the ancients called up with what conse- quences we ...
... beginning of Book 3 and Urania at the beginning of Book 7. He is wary of imitating a pagan act ( there was a Urania among " the Muses nine , " he knows ) , of calling up the same powers the ancients called up with what conse- quences we ...
Page 142
... beginning of the poem where Satan is revealed chained on the burning lake : Nine times the Space that measures Day and Night To mortal men , hee with his horrid crew Lay vanquisht , rolling in the fiery Gulf Confounded though 142 Milton.
... beginning of the poem where Satan is revealed chained on the burning lake : Nine times the Space that measures Day and Night To mortal men , hee with his horrid crew Lay vanquisht , rolling in the fiery Gulf Confounded though 142 Milton.
Contents
The Easy Descent from Avernus | 17 |
Language and History | 57 |
Traditions and the Individual Talent | 118 |
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Adam Aeneas Aeneid already ancient angels appears attempt become beginning Brunetto Latini calls choice comes Commedia complete course Dante Dante's dark dead death demonic describing discourse divine earth effect epic example experience face fact Fall fallen false fate father fear figure final future give gods hand Heaven Hell hero heroic Homeric human imagination important Inferno instance kind king language light lines living look matter means memory metaphor Milton mind narration narrative nature never Odyssey once origins Paradise Lost passage past perhaps phrase pilgrim poem poet poetry precisely present question reason references relation remarkable reminded repeat Satan seems seen sense shades simply speak speech story suggests surely tell things thir tradition turn University Press Vergil vision voice whole writing