The Augustinian Epic, Petrarch to MiltonThe Augustinian Epic, Petrarch to Milton rewrites the history of the Renaissance Vergilian epic by incorporating the neo-Latin side of the story alongside the vernacular one, revealing how epics spoke to each other "across the language gap" and together comprised a single, "Augustinian tradition" of epic poetry. Beginning with Petrarch's Africa, Warner offers major new interpretations of Renaissance epics both famous and forgotten—from Milton's Paradise Lost to a Latin Christiad by his near-contemporary, Alexander Ross—thereby shedding new light on the development of the epic genre. For advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars in the fields of Italian, English, and Comparative literatures as well as the Classics and the history of religion and literature. |
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... Poetics " ( 1975 ) , whose thesis was soon extended in essays by Guiseppe Mazzotta ( 1978 ) and Thomas Greene ... poetic narrative of a conver- sion " ( 1978 , 272 ) . The framing poems try to claim that the poet has " reached the ...
... poetic lady created by the poet , who in turn creates him . " 32 Through this " poetic strategy " of circular , “ self - contained dynamism , " Freccero concludes , the Petrarchan lover stakes his claim to autonomy ( 37 ) . In this ...
J. Christopher Warner. poetic principles - a " passion for allegory " that " increased with [ his ] men- tal disorder ... poet “ means that he is raised up above his humanity by contemplation . " 4 Tasso's well- known , 1575 letter to his ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Petrarchs Culpa and the Allegory of the Africa | 20 |
Petrarchs Culpa in Gerusalemme liberata | 74 |
Copyright | |
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