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... fact , the stated limits of both poems turn out to be illusory . The Aeneid , chronologically speaking , does not begin with the flight from Troy but with the circumstances which resulted in its destruction , the treachery of Sinon and ...
... fact , the stated limits of both poems turn out to be illusory . The Aeneid , chronologically speaking , does not begin with the flight from Troy but with the circumstances which resulted in its destruction , the treachery of Sinon and ...
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... fact that it is set against the flattering background of Hell . On Satan's side , too , is the reader's own instinctive sympathy for the underdog , the fact that he has not yet been exposed in a dramatic context to any other point of ...
... fact that it is set against the flattering background of Hell . On Satan's side , too , is the reader's own instinctive sympathy for the underdog , the fact that he has not yet been exposed in a dramatic context to any other point of ...
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... fact , in Murray's opinion , it is precisely Dryden's failure to recapture in English Virgil's authentic music which constitutes his greatest failure . " If one asks why Dry- den's translation of Vergil is so utterly unsatisfying , it ...
... fact , in Murray's opinion , it is precisely Dryden's failure to recapture in English Virgil's authentic music which constitutes his greatest failure . " If one asks why Dry- den's translation of Vergil is so utterly unsatisfying , it ...
Contents
Chapter One FIT AUDIENCE | 1 |
Chapter Two NOT LESS BUT MORE HEROIC ས ༤ | 40 |
Chapter Four THE VEIL OF INNOCENCE | 67 |
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Achilles Adam and Eve Adam's Aeneas Aeneid allusion amorous authors beauty bee simile begins blank verse Book of Paradise borrowing Burning Lake Carthage comparison context death describes device Dido Dido's dream Dryden Earth edition editors English epic episode epithet Eve's eyes fact Fall Fallen Angels Fourth Book Georgic glory gods grammar Greek Heaven Hell hero heroic Homer Homer and Virgil Horace Iliad imitation influence innocent Juno Jupiter kind language Latin lines literary London meaning metaphor Milton Criticism mind Mount Ida Neoptolemus note to P.L. numbers Odysseus Odyssey Ovid Paradise Lost parallel passage Phaethon Phoebus phrase poem poet poetic poetry quoted Raphael reader Renaissance rhetorical rhythmical Roman Salmoneus Satan schoolboy sense serpents shore simile spear speech Spenser structure style Tellus thee thir thou tion Tityos tradition translation Trojans Troy Turnus Typhon verbal echo Virgil Virgilian writes Zeus