The Burial-places of Memory: Epic Underworlds in Vergil, Dante, and Milton |
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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 compulsion to repeat context course Dante Dante's dark dead death demonic Dido discourse of fate divine Divine Comedy dreadful Faces earth effect epic tradition episode 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 lines means memory metalepsis metaphor Milton narration narrative never Northrop Frye nostalgia Odysseus Paradise Lost passage past pastoral perhaps phrase pilgrim poem poet poetry precisely present Priam Princeton reminded repetition Richmond Lattimore Roman Satan scene seems sense shades simile simply souls speak speech story suggests surely Sybil tell things thir thou Troy Turnus underworld University Press Vergil Vergilian vision voice words