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Jiang’s term for the divine energy poetry is meant to carry transparently, even though an author can bend it toward empire.
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holy fire
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Jiang says poets channel a holy fire meant to illuminate readers, but Virgil used free will to turn that vessel into an imperial weapon.
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"...right so remember the poets are channeling the divine fire the holy fire okay and the poetry is meant to um capture the holy..."
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"...but the poet has committed evil and sin by trapping the holy fire and so the poet um um is convinced that this vessel..."
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"...more than god and it's virgil right because virgil is the holy fire and he says you know what if i had a chance..."
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"...that warmed me, the seeds of my ardor, were from the holy fire, the same that gave more than a thousand poets light and..."
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"...that warm me, the seeds of my ardor were from the holy fire, the same that gave more than a thousand poets light and..."
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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The lecture begins with Augustine's dusty human nature and ends with Virgil fleeing the proof that Dante's love is stronger than obedience.
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The Divine Comedy does not defeat Virgil by denouncing him.
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