 | Fairy Queen (Everyman)
Publication Date: November 15, 1996| Series: Everyman This study edition, published to commemorate the quatercentenary of the six-book 1596 edition, contains a full, modernized selection from modern England's longest epic poem, as well as a commentary upon it. ...
 |  | Virgil (Ancients in Action)
Publication Date: January 28, 2002| ISBN-10: 1853996262 | ISBN-13: 978-1853996269Virgil lived through the fall of the Roman Republic and the establishment of the Empire. His Eclogues, Georgics and Aeneid represent a series of attempts, increasingly ambitious in scale and conception, to combine technical brilliance and poetic beauty with profound meditations on the nature of imperialism and the relation of the individual to the state. From short pastoral poems on love and song Virgil progressed to the heroic myth of the founding of Rome. The Aeneid, immediately recognized in its own time ...
|  | The Epic Successors of Virgil: A Study in the Dynamics of a Tradition (Roman Literature and its Contexts)
Publication Date: January 29, 1993| ISBN-10: 052142562X | ISBN-13: 978-0521425629This book is a critically sophisticated introduction to the epic tradition of the early Roman empire, specifically the epic poems of Ovid, Lucan, Statius, Valerius Flaccus, and Silius Italicus.It explores the use that they all make of the great Augustan epic of Virgil, the Aeneid.Instead of being feeble imitations of the great classic (a common critical viewpoint), these poems are shown to be dynamic works that use the Virgilian model creatively to reflect the moral and political issues of their own day.All ...
|  | The Odyssey
Release Date: December 23, 2004| ISBN-10: 0312869010 | ISBN-13: 978-0312869014The Odyssey is the original journey tale, a genre that has lasted three thousand years, and has had a lasting influence on on literature and art.The trials of Odysseus were first told by the great bard Homer.For ten long years the Greeks and Trojans have fought on the plains of Troy, and now Odysseus, the King of Ithaca, and the other victorious Greeks are ready to sail home.But after offending the sea god, Poseidon, Odysseus is hurled into years of wandering the seas, encountering monsters and sirens, raging s...
|  | From Virgil to Milton
Publication Date: 19451945, London. Discusses the literary epic including Virgil and the ideal of Rome; Camoes and the epic of Portugal; Tasso and the romance of Christian chivalry, and Milton and the destiny of man. 247 pages. ...
|  | Spenser's Faerie Queene (Approaches to Teaching World Literature)
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|  | An Epitome of Biblical History: Glosses on Walter of Chatillon's 'Alexandreis' 4.176-274 (Toronto Medieval Latin Texts)
Publication Date: January 1, 2008| ISBN-10: 088844480X | ISBN-13: 978-0888444806An epic of some 5500 lines on the life of Alexander the Great, Walter of Chatillon's Alexandreis stood, from the late twelfth century till the close of the Middle Ages, among the most successful and widely read works of Latin literature. This volume presents one free-standing version of the more or less 'standard' commentary on a uniquely celebrated passage from the poem. The lines in question, 176-274 of Book 4, describe a tomb commissioned by Alexander for the wife of Darius, after her death in captivity to...
|  | Pieces of Air in the Epic (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
Publication Date: August 1, 2007| Series: Wesleyan Poetry Series In her newest poems, Brenda Hillman continues her exploration of nature and culture in ways that demonstrate her original place in experimental lyric traditions. Pieces of Air in the Epic is the second book of a tetrology that takes the elements--earth, air, water, fire--as its subject. As Hillman's previous collection, Cascadia, explores "earth," the present collection considers "air"--the many meanings of the word and the life-giving medium we breathe--to test a reality that is both political and personal. These formally inve...
|  | King of Sacrifice: Ritual and Royal Authority in the Iliad (Hellenic Studies)
Publication Date: December 15, 2009| ISBN-10: 067402592X | ISBN-13: 978-0674025929Descriptions of animal sacrifice in Homer offer us some of the most detailed accounts of this attempt at communication between man and gods. What is the significance of these scenes within the framework of the Iliad? This book explores the structural and thematic importance of animal sacrifice as an expression of the quarrel between Akhilleus and Agamemnon through the differing perspectives of the primary narrative and character speech. In the Iliad, animal sacrifice is incorporated into the primary narrati...
|  | Epic: Britain's Heroic Muse 1790-1910
Publication Date: June 2, 2008| ISBN-10: 0199232989 | ISBN-13: 978-0199232987This book is the first to provide a connected history of epic poetry in Britain between the French Revolution and the First World War. Although epic is widely held to have been shouldered aside by the novel, if not invalidated in advance by modernity, in fact the genre was practiced without interruption across the long nineteenth century by nearly every prominent Romantic and Victorian poet, and shoals of ambitious poetasters into the bargain. Poets kept the epic alive by revising its conventions to meet an over...
|  | Beowulf: An Imitative Translation
Publication Date: 1988The name "Beowulf" lingers in our collective memory, although today fewer people have heard the tale of the Germanic hero's fight with Grendel, the dreadful Monster of the Mere, as recounted in this Anglo-Saxon epic. This edition of Beowulf makes the poem more accessible than ever before. Ruth Lehmann's imitative translation is the only one available that preserves both the story line of the poem and the alliterative versification of the Anglo-Saxon original. The characteristic features of Anglo-Saxon poetry-- alliterative verse with first-syllable stress, flexible word...
|  | Tradition and Design in the Iliad.
Publication Date: July 15, 1977| ISBN-10: 0837195616 | ISBN-13: 978-0837195612Published in 1930, this volume is still considered one of the standard works of criticism on the great epic. ...
|  | The Mountain Wreath
Publication Date: August 14, 2012The Mountain Wreath (Serbian: Gorski vijenac) is a poem and a play, a masterpiece of Serbian literature, written by Montenegrin Prince-Bishop and poet Petar II Petrovic-Njegos. Njegos wrote The Mountain Wreath during 1846 in Cetinje and published it the following year after the printing in an Armenian monastery in Vienna. It is a modern epic written in verse as a play, thus combining three of the major modes of literary expression. Set in 18th-century Montenegro, the poem deals with attempts of Njegos's ancestor Danilo to regulate relations among the region's...
|  | Spenser's Arthur
Publication Date: February 20, 1997| ISBN-10: 0761806598 | ISBN-13: 978-0761806592This book explores the political and intellectual ideology of the British Arthurian tradition, particularly the delineation of the figure of Arthur as a cultural icon. Spenserian's have tended to isolate The Faerie Queene from the Arthurian tradition. This book re-reads that tradition, revealing notions of histobiography, national identity, and national destiny which are powerfully present in Spenser's great Tudor epic and contrapuntally in his "A View to the Present State of England." ...
|  | Archestratus: Fragments from the Life of Luxury
Release Date: June 7, 2011| ISBN-10: 1903018625 | ISBN-13: 978-1903018620| Edition: Revised The big fact about Archestratus is that the fragments that survive constitute the earliest written culinary text to come down to us from the classical world (pedants might argue that the Babylonian and Egyptian materials are earlier but they in no way resemble a book.) This remarkable and almost unique work was written in the 4th century BC by the poet Archestratus, from Gela, a Greek colony in Sicily. The complete text has long since vanished but these fragments or quotations enshrined in a much ...
| | The Wanderer (Old English Library)
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|  | Paradise Lost(MAXNotes Literature Guides)
Publication Date: June 9, 1995| Series: MAXnotes Literature Guides MAXnotes offer a fresh look at masterpieces of literature, presented in a lively and interesting fashion.Written by literary experts who currently teach the subject, MAXnotes will enhance your understanding and enjoyment of the work. MAXnotes are designed to stimulate independent thought about the literary work by raising various issues and thought-provoking ideas and questions.MAXnotes cover the essentials of what one should know about each work, including an overall summary, character lists, an explanation and discussion of...
|  | The Epic Poise: A Celebration of Ted Hughes (Faber Literary Studies)
Publication Date: June 1999| ISBN-10: 0571196861 | ISBN-13: 978-0571196869A celebration of the work of Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate, who died in October 1998. Contributors to this work include: Raymond Briggs, Wendy Cope, John Fowles, Sir John Gielgud, Seamus Heaney, Susan Hill, James Lasdun, Blake Morrison, Andrew Motion, Jon Stallworthy, Claire Tomalin and Marina Warner. ...
| | An Introduction to Homer
Publication Date: April 10, 1980| ISBN-10: 0198720998 | ISBN-13: 978-0198720997This is a book for all readers of Homer, whether in translation or in the original.It attempts to characterize the poetic art of the Iliad and the Odyssey and to analyse in a simple way the reasons for its effectiveness. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
|  | Rediscovering Homer: Inside the Origins of the Epic
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