The Burial-places of Memory: Epic Underworlds in Vergil, Dante, and Milton |
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... calling , to ordinary human discourse with all its complexities and ambiguities . And even as Anchises calls the roll of future Roman worthies , we catch again some whis- pering of the uncertainties , the fundamentally problematic char ...
... calling , to ordinary human discourse with all its complexities and ambiguities . And even as Anchises calls the roll of future Roman worthies , we catch again some whis- pering of the uncertainties , the fundamentally problematic char ...
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... calls a " pidgin - English of the imagination , ” 2 but is rather always in touch with the fantastic , the monstrous , and the grotesque , those forms and images that we have become accustomed to calling " mythic . " That Dante treated ...
... calls a " pidgin - English of the imagination , ” 2 but is rather always in touch with the fantastic , the monstrous , and the grotesque , those forms and images that we have become accustomed to calling " mythic . " That Dante treated ...
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... call it God or health or civilization , we can see traces of the lowest , and , conversely , in the lowest thing , no matter how deformed or reduced , we can see the way out and up . For nothing is , or need be , wasted , existing as it ...
... call it God or health or civilization , we can see traces of the lowest , and , conversely , in the lowest thing , no matter how deformed or reduced , we can see the way out and up . For nothing is , or need be , wasted , existing as it ...
Contents
The Easy Descent from Avernus | 17 |
Language and History | 57 |
Traditions and the Individual Talent | 118 |
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Achilles Adam and Eve Aeneas Aeneas's Aeneid Anchises ancient attempt become Brunetto Brunetto Latini calls canto Charon Commedia context Dante Dante's dark dead death demonic Dido discourse of fate divine Divine Comedy earth effect epic episode essay eternal Eurypylus Eve's experience fact fallen angels false father fiction Francesca Freud genre gods Harold Bloom Heaven Hell hero heroic Homeric human Iliad imagination Inferno journey kind king language Latium lines meaning meditation memory metalepsis metaphor Milton mind narration narrative never Northrop Frye Odysseus Paradise Lost passage past perhaps phrase pilgrim poem poet poetry precisely present Priam Princeton prophecy R. S. Conway reminded repetition Richmond Lattimore Roman Satan scene seems sense shades simile simply souls speak speech story suggests surely Sybil tell things thir thou tradition Troy turn Turnus underworld University Press Vergil Vergilian vision voice words