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... pagan literature ( including Virgil's Aeneid ) to discover “ hidden ” meanings . The principal allegorical commentaries in- clude the anonymous , fourteenth - century Ovide Moralisé and Pierre Bersuire's Metamorphosis Ovidiana moraliter ...
... pagan literature ( including Virgil's Aeneid ) to discover “ hidden ” meanings . The principal allegorical commentaries in- clude the anonymous , fourteenth - century Ovide Moralisé and Pierre Bersuire's Metamorphosis Ovidiana moraliter ...
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... pagan poets may be inspired by the Christian Muse : Ile tell ye , ' tis not vain or fabulous , ( Though so esteem'd ... pagan poetry whatever the heavenly Muse has inspired . The obvious problem with such a principle is an epis ...
... pagan poets may be inspired by the Christian Muse : Ile tell ye , ' tis not vain or fabulous , ( Though so esteem'd ... pagan poetry whatever the heavenly Muse has inspired . The obvious problem with such a principle is an epis ...
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... pagan art , two appar- ently opposite stances toward Ovid's Metamorphoses follow for Milton . As an apologist for pagan art in its morally useful role , Milton could adopt the form and style of Ovid's fables but con- demn their pagan ...
... pagan art , two appar- ently opposite stances toward Ovid's Metamorphoses follow for Milton . As an apologist for pagan art in its morally useful role , Milton could adopt the form and style of Ovid's fables but con- demn their pagan ...
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