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The burial-places of memory : epic underworlds in Vergil, Dante, and Milton

Print Book, English, 1987
University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, 1987
Criticism, interpretation, etc
x, 223 pages ; 23 cm
9780870235580, 0870235583
14068002
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