The burial-places of memory : epic underworlds in Vergil, Dante, and Milton /
Ronald R. Macdonald.
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 1987.
- 1 online resource (x, 223 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-214) and index.
Part I: Vergil: the easy descent from Avernus -- Fatum, fama, infandum -- Homer's Nekuia and Vergil's Descent -- Aeneas and the ferryman -- The discourse of fate -- Part II: Dante: language and history -- The Commedia and the classical tradition -- Vergil's missing name -- The language of the tribe -- Beyond the classical tradition -- Part III: Milton: traditions and the individual talent -- The reluctant speaker -- Metaphor, naming, and presumption -- The lower deep withing the lowest deep -- The compulsion to repeat.
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Aeneis (Virgil) Divina commedia (Dante Alighieri) Paradise lost (Milton, John)
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