The Exile’s Epic Path to Healing: Authorial Intrusion in Purgatorio and Omeros

This paper explores why two seemingly dissimilar poets, Dante Alighieri and Derek Walcott, writing from different time periods and places, both utilized authorial intrusion and became secondary characters in their respective epic poems, the Purgatorio and Omeros. I propose that by inserting themselv...

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Main Author: Kelly Elizabeth Hill
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Milano University Press 2017-11-01
Series:Altre Modernità
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Online Access:https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/article/view/9264