From Virgil to Milton, Volume 10Macmillan & Company Limited, 1945 - 246 pagine "This book is a study of the literary epic in four of its chief examples, and especially of certain characteristics which seem to belong to this kind of poetry."--Preface. |
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SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF LITERARY EPIC | 1 |
VIRGIL AND THE IDEAL OF ROME | 33 |
MILTON AND THE DESTINY OF | 194 |
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