"Dante and Milton: A Comparative Study of the Poets and Their Masterpie" by Mary Paredes Oswald
 

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.

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

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