Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PREFACE
- Chapter I INTRODUCTION
- Chapter II THE HEROIC AGE
- Chapter III HEROIC POETRY AND SAGA
- Chapter IV THE HEROIC MILIEU
- Chapter V INDIVIDUALISM IN THE HEROIC STORIES
- Chapter VI NON-HEROIC STORIES RELATING TO THE HEROIC AGE
- Chapter VII HISTORICAL ELEMENTS IN STORIES OF THE HEROIC AGE
- Chapter VIII UNHISTORICAL ELEMENTS IN STORIES OF THE HEROIC AGE
- Chapter IX POETRY AND SAGA RELATING TO DEITIES
- Chapter X ANTIQUARIAN LEARNING
- Chapter XI POST-HEROIC POETRY AND SAGA
- Chapter XII GNOMIC POETRY
- Chapter XIII DESCRIPTIVE POETRY
- Chapter XIV POETRY AND SAGA RELATING TO UNSPECIFIED INDIVIDUALS
- Chapter XV MANTIC POETRY
- Chapter XVI LITERATURE AND WRITING
- Chapter XVII THE TEXTS
- Chapter XVIII RECITATION AND COMPOSITION
- Chapter XIX THE AUTHOR
- Chapter XX INSPIRATION
- ADDENDA
- INDEX
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 April 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PREFACE
- Chapter I INTRODUCTION
- Chapter II THE HEROIC AGE
- Chapter III HEROIC POETRY AND SAGA
- Chapter IV THE HEROIC MILIEU
- Chapter V INDIVIDUALISM IN THE HEROIC STORIES
- Chapter VI NON-HEROIC STORIES RELATING TO THE HEROIC AGE
- Chapter VII HISTORICAL ELEMENTS IN STORIES OF THE HEROIC AGE
- Chapter VIII UNHISTORICAL ELEMENTS IN STORIES OF THE HEROIC AGE
- Chapter IX POETRY AND SAGA RELATING TO DEITIES
- Chapter X ANTIQUARIAN LEARNING
- Chapter XI POST-HEROIC POETRY AND SAGA
- Chapter XII GNOMIC POETRY
- Chapter XIII DESCRIPTIVE POETRY
- Chapter XIV POETRY AND SAGA RELATING TO UNSPECIFIED INDIVIDUALS
- Chapter XV MANTIC POETRY
- Chapter XVI LITERATURE AND WRITING
- Chapter XVII THE TEXTS
- Chapter XVIII RECITATION AND COMPOSITION
- Chapter XIX THE AUTHOR
- Chapter XX INSPIRATION
- ADDENDA
- INDEX
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- The Growth of Literature , pp. i - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1932