Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-245) and index.
Contents:
religious vocation of secular literature: Dante and postmodern thought. "Enditynges of worldly vanitees": truth and poetry in Chaucer as compared with Dante -- Prophecy eclipsed: Hamlet as a tragedy of knowledge -- Blind prophecy: Milton's figurative mode in Paradise Lost and in some early poems -- The logic of infinity in European Romanticism: Blake or Leopardi? -- The linguistic turning of the symbol: Baudelaire and his French symbolist heirs -- "The missing all": Emily Dickinson's apophatic poetics -- The dialectical logic of William Butler Yeats's Byzantium Poems -- The religious vocation of secular literature: Dante and postmodern thought.
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