The Burial-places of Memory: Epic Underworlds in Vergil, Dante, and Milton |
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... poet's job to reveal as assumptions and interpre- tations . In thus interrogating his language the poet is like Cleo- patra interrogating the messenger about Antony's marriage to Octavia ( 2.5 ) . She refuses to accept his simple and ...
... poet's job to reveal as assumptions and interpre- tations . In thus interrogating his language the poet is like Cleo- patra interrogating the messenger about Antony's marriage to Octavia ( 2.5 ) . She refuses to accept his simple and ...
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... poet receives is indeed a " burial - place , " a col- lective memory laden with assumptions and ideologies . These he must bring to consciousness , if he is to turn the received language into an instrument peculiarly his own . Shelley ...
... poet receives is indeed a " burial - place , " a col- lective memory laden with assumptions and ideologies . These he must bring to consciousness , if he is to turn the received language into an instrument peculiarly his own . Shelley ...
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... poet , has converted his experiential mistake into metaphor by the interposition of a text that Vergil has never read . The pilgrim's fealty to Vergil must always be read in the context of the poet's consciousness of what separates him ...
... poet , has converted his experiential mistake into metaphor by the interposition of a text that Vergil has never read . The pilgrim's fealty to Vergil must always be read in the context of the poet's consciousness of what separates him ...
Contents
The Easy Descent from Avernus | 17 |
Language and History | 57 |
Traditions and the Individual Talent | 118 |
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