Tom Paulin
Tom Paulin
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This groundbreaking study reveals how the Rossetti siblings revolutionized Victorian conceptions of selfhood through a sophisticated dialectic that transcends conventional binaries—matter and spirit, sacred and secular love, strength and vulnerability, divinity and depravity.
THE EPIC THAT TAUGHT US THE MEANING OF HEROISM For nearly three thousand years, Homer's The Iliad has stood as the foundational epic of Western literature. Composed in the eighth century BCE, this monumental poem shaped how subsequent generations understood heroism, honour, mortality, and the devastating consequences of war.
This book offers the first verse translation of Sedulius’ 5th-century biblical epic, the Carmen paschale, a versification of the Gospels in the style of Vergil’s Aeneid, one that was well known and much admired throughout Europe for the better part of a millennium.
