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... characters while absorbing Ovid's manner.23 As we saw in the previous chapter , Milton uses both corrected and unchanged Ovidian figures , and he often follows the example set by Dante's mediating Christian epic . Christopher Grose ...
... characters while absorbing Ovid's manner.23 As we saw in the previous chapter , Milton uses both corrected and unchanged Ovidian figures , and he often follows the example set by Dante's mediating Christian epic . Christopher Grose ...
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... characters through direct address . Unlike Virgil , whose involvement with his epic characters , however close to their thoughts and motivations , rarely erupts in personal responses to them in his narrative voice , Ovid frequently ...
... characters through direct address . Unlike Virgil , whose involvement with his epic characters , however close to their thoughts and motivations , rarely erupts in personal responses to them in his narrative voice , Ovid frequently ...
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... characters , and thereby induce a strange sense of incongruity between the historical setting of the speaker and the fictional world of the poem . A primary reason for Milton's imitation of Ovid's technique is the Christian poet's ...
... characters , and thereby induce a strange sense of incongruity between the historical setting of the speaker and the fictional world of the poem . A primary reason for Milton's imitation of Ovid's technique is the Christian poet's ...
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