Book contents
- Frontmatter
- 1 The Epic of Gilgamesh
- 2 Greek epic
- 3 Roman epic
- 4 Heroic epic poetry in the Middle Ages
- 5 Dante and the epic of transcendence
- 6 Italian Renaissance epic
- 7 Camões’s Os Lusíadas: the first modern epic
- 8 The Faerie Queene: Britain’s national monument
- 9 The seventeenth-century Protestant English epic
- 10 Mock-heroic and English poetry
- 11 Romantic re-appropriations of the epic
- 12 Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and the modern epic
- 13 Derek Walcott’s Omeros
- 14 Epic in translation
- Guide to further reading
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 May 2010
- Frontmatter
- 1 The Epic of Gilgamesh
- 2 Greek epic
- 3 Roman epic
- 4 Heroic epic poetry in the Middle Ages
- 5 Dante and the epic of transcendence
- 6 Italian Renaissance epic
- 7 Camões’s Os Lusíadas: the first modern epic
- 8 The Faerie Queene: Britain’s national monument
- 9 The seventeenth-century Protestant English epic
- 10 Mock-heroic and English poetry
- 11 Romantic re-appropriations of the epic
- 12 Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and the modern epic
- 13 Derek Walcott’s Omeros
- 14 Epic in translation
- Guide to further reading
- Index
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- The Cambridge Companion to the Epic , pp. 274 - 279Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010