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 3888 | 33 |
CAMÕES AND THE EPIC OF PORTUGAL | 86 |
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Achilles actions Adam and Eve Adamastor admired Aeneas Aeneid angels appeal Ariosto Armida Augustus Bacchus battle beauty believed Boiardo Camões Canto Carthage character chivalrous epic Christian claims Clorinda conception Counter-Reformation created Crusaders death delight desire destiny devils Dido disorder display divine doubt dream earth emotions episodes Erminia evil Fairfax fancy Fanshawe feels felt fight Gama Gama's Gerusalemme gives glory gods Goffredo Greek Heaven Hell hero heroism Homer honour human imagination Italy Jerusalem Juno Jupiter kind King knights Latin literary epic lives Lusiadas magic Milton moral natural noble Odysseus old heroic Orlando Furioso Paradise Lost passion poem poetry poets Portugal Portuguese present pride qualities Renaissance Rinaldo Roman Rome Satan seems shows simile Song of Roland spirit Stoic story Tancredi task Tasso tells theme thou tragic Trojans Troy true truth Turnus Venus Virgil Virgilian whole words