Of Hearing and of Failing to Hear: The Allusive Dialogue with Virgil in Milton's Epitaphium Damonis

Authors

  • Victoria Moul The Queen's College, Oxford

Abstract

Discusses the allegorical undertones of the Virgilian allusions in Milton's elegy to Charles Diodati: "Milton has lost Virgil (and Latin) only to extend to himself the hope of finding him again in an English epic."

Published

2006-03-19

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