Date of Award
1922
Degree Type
Master's Essay - Restricted
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Literatures, Languages, and Cultures
Abstract
The recent celebration of the sex-centenary of the death of Dante has awakened renewed interest in the author of the "Divine Comedy", the study of which suggests a comparison with the great epic of the Englishman of the seventeenth century.
In attempting to draw a parallel between Milton and Dante we find that the poetry of these great men has in a considerable degree taken its character from their moral qualities. They are not egotists. They rarely obtrude their idiosyncrasies on their readers. Yet it would be difficult to name two writers whose works have been more completely, though undesignedly, colored by their personal feelings. Hence it may not be out of place to mention several of the striking similarities and dissimilarities between these two great poets and thinkers.
Recommended Citation
Oswald, Mary Paredes, "Dante and Milton: A Comparative Study of the Poets and Their Masterpieces" (1922). Master's Essays (1922 - ). 2478.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/essays/2478
Comments
A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the University of Marquette in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Arts, College of Arts and Sciences, Milwaukee, Wisconsin