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‘UNBOUNDED VIEWS’: INCOMPLETE EKPHRASIS AND THE VISUAL IMAGINATION IN VIRGIL

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 May 2016

Raymond Kania
Raymond Kania*
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Stanford Universityraymond.kania@gmail.com
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Our imagination loves to be filled with an object or to grasp at anything that is too big for its capacity. We are flung into a pleasing astonishment at such unbounded views and feel a delightful stillness and amazement of the soul at the apprehension of them.

Joseph Addison, Essay 412

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Ramus , Volume 45 , Issue 1 , June 2016 , pp. 74 - 101
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