Perspectives on Epic

Achilles adventures Aeneas Aeneid Ariosto Aristotle Arnold Arthurian battle beauty beginning Beowulf Book Carolingian Carolingian cycle century characters Charlemagne Christian classical comedy critical Dante death diction dramatic Dryden E. M. W. Tillyard English epic poem epic poetry episodes exploit feeling fight Furioso genre Giraldi gods Greek Gunther H. M. Chadwick hath Hector hero heroic poem heroic poetry Homer human Iliad imagination imitate kind knights language Lattimore legend less literary long poem lyrical Milton mind Minturno modern narrative narrator nature never Nibelungenlied nobility Odysseus oral literature Orlando Furioso pagan paperback reprint Paradise Lost perhaps poet poetic Pope's Prelude prose Renaissance Reprinted by permission romantic romanzi Rouse Satan sense Siegfried Song of Roland speech Spenser spirit story structure style syntax Tasso theme things thir thou tion tradition tragedy tragic translation Trojans Troy unity verse Virgil virtue whole words Wordsworth writing