Milton, Spenser and the epic tradition
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Milton, Spenser and the epic tradition
Ashgate, c1999
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"First published in hardback (ISBN 1 85928 271 7) under the Scholar Press, imprint, Ashgate Publishing Ltd." -- t.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. [180]-195) and index
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Description
An overview of the genre of "epic" poetry and its evolution from Homer to Milton, combined with a close analysis of the texts of perhaps six of the most well-known and studied examples: the "Iliad", the "Odyssey", the "Aeneid", "Orlando Furioso", "The Faerie Queene" and "Paradise Lost". It provides not only a context in which the works of the later English poets should be read, but also presents an individual analysis of these familiar works.
Table of Contents
- Homeric origins - the "Iliad" and the norms of epic
- the revisionary "Odyssey"
- epic rhetoric - the reader as hero
- the Vergilian revision
- from Aristo to Spenser - Aristo and the renaissance of epic
- Spenser's legend of wholeness
- the copious matter of "The Faerie Queene"
- Herculean displacements
- the endless argument of "The Faerie Queene"
- the endless work of "Paradise Lost" - the epic of Heaven and Hell
- the human epic
- from the one to the many - Milton and the epic body
- from the many to the one - discursive and intuitive reason.
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