Descensus Averno: Or, The Downward Drift
Author: James H. Curry
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Published: 1881
Total Pages: 384
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Author: James H. Curry
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Published: 1881
Total Pages: 384
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9781854795892
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLearn to use Latin in any important discussion with advice from sage Romans.olitics, love, women and relationships are all commented upon with wit.uthors include Caesar, Gaius Julius 100-44 BC, Cicero, Marcus Tullius 106-43C, and Horatius Flaccus, Quintus 239-169 BC.
Author: David Lawrence Pike
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 850
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Published: 1876
Total Pages: 106
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Published: 1833
Total Pages: 550
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Published: 1930
Total Pages: 48
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Neil Forsyth
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9780691113395
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Satan of Paradise Lost has fascinated generations of readers. This book attempts to explain how and why Milton's Satan is so seductive. It reasserts the importance of Satan against those who would minimize the poem's sympathy for the devil and thereby make Milton orthodox. Neil Forsyth argues that William Blake got it right when he called Milton a true poet because he was "of the Devils party" even though he set out "to justify the ways of God to men." In seeking to learn why Satan is so alluring, Forsyth ranges over diverse topics--from the origins of evil and the relevance of witchcraft to the status of the poetic narrator, the epic tradition, the nature of love between the sexes, and seventeenth-century astronomy. He considers each of these as Milton introduces them: as Satanic subjects. Satan emerges as the main challenge to Christian belief. It is Satan who questions and wonders and denounces. He is the great doubter who gives voice to many of the arguments that Christianity has provoked from within and without. And by rooting his Satanic reading of Paradise Lost in Biblical and other sources, Forsyth retrieves not only an attractive and heroic Satan but a Milton whose heretical energies are embodied in a Satanic character with a life of his own.
Author: David L. Pike
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2018-09-05
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 1501729470
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTaking the culturally resonant motif of the descent to the underworld as his guiding thread, David L. Pike traces the interplay between myth and history in medieval and modernist literature. Passage through Hell suggests new approaches to the practice of comparative literature, and a possible escape from the current morass of competing critical schools and ideologies. Pike's readings of Louis Ferdinand Céline and Walter Benjamin reveal the tensions at work in the modern appropriation of structures derived from ancient and medieval descents. His book shows how these structures were redefined in modernism and persist in contemporary critical practice. In order to recover the historical corpus of modernism, he asserts, it is necessary to acknowledge the attraction that medieval forms and motifs held for modernist literature and theory. By pairing the writings of the postwar German dramatist and novelist Peter Weiss with Dante's Commedia, and Christine de Pizan with Virginia Woolf, Pike argues for a new level of complexity in the relation between medieval and modern poetics. Pike's supple and persuasive reading of the Commedia resituates that text within the contradictions of medieval tradition. He contends that the Dantean allegory of conversion, altered to suit the exigencies of modernism, maintains its hold over current literature and theory. The postwar writers Pike treats—Weiss, Seamus Heaney, and Derek Walcott—exemplify alternate strategies for negotiating the legacy of modernism. The passage through hell emerges as a way of disentangling images of the past from their interpretation in the present.
Author: Joseph B. Fowler
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2018-01-30
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9780267231638
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from Descensus Averno and Other Poems N ow rising high, revealing by their glare The dreary realms of sorrow and despair; Now falling low, and darkening, as they fall Hell's gloomy plains and loathsome caverns all Expectant, mute and motionless, alone In solemn state upon his ebon throne Beelzebub, the Prince of Hell, awaits With anxious gaze toward the frowning gates, The coming, long delayed, of Satan; him Whose lordly presence in these regions dim Serves every fear among his hosts to quell; Whose lengthened absence makes a void in hell. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.