From Virgil to Milton
C. M. Bowra (Author)
"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
Literary criticism
vii, 246 pages ; 22 cm
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Some characteristics of literary epic
Virgil and the ideal of Rome
Camões and the epic of Portugal
Tasso and the romance of Christian chivalry
Milton and the destiny of man