Dante and Milton : : The "Commedia" and "Paradise Lost" / / Irene Samuel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Samuel, Irene,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1966
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)

Comparisons have frequently been made between the works of Dante and Milton, more often than not by critics with a definite predilection one or the other poet. The author of this systematic comparison has approached the task without partisanship, but with a warm admiration for both poets. It is her...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Preface
• Contents
• I. Preliminaries
• Purgatorio and the Dream of Eve
• Satan and the "Diminisht” Stars
• II. Milton’s Reading of Dante
• III. “Higher Argument Remains”
• IV. Hell and Its Populace
• Introduction
• "The Sport of Winds”
• "O con Forza o con Frode”
• The Valley of Serpents
• The Ultimate Fixity
• V. Heaven and Eden
• Introduction
• The Chain of Being
• The Life in Bliss
• Wrath in Heaven
• The Earthly Paradise
• VI. The Purgatorial Way
• Introduction
• The Two Instructions
• Reason and Free Will
• The Politics of Vision
• VII. The Narrative of Meaning
• Appendix A: A Table of Milton’s References to Dante before Paradise Lost
• Appendix B: The Tavole of Benedetto Buommattei facing
• Appendix C: Comments on the Relation of Milton and Dante, in Chronological Sequence
• APPENDIX D: The Proems of Paradise Lost and the Commedia
• Index of Names and Tides