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• Publisher: Brandon House; 1st edition (June 1979)
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	Beowulf Poet: A Collection of Critical Essays (20th Century Views) Publication Date: December 1968| ISBN-10: 0130735280 | ISBN-13: 978-0130735287An ex-library book in excellent condition! ...
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Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society: Oath-Making Rituals in the Iliad: Margo Kitts: 9780521855297

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Publication Date: November 7, 2005 | ISBN-10: 0521855292 | ISBN-13: 978-0521855297 | Edition: 1St Edition

In Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society, Margo Kitts focuses on oath-making narratives found in the Iliad through which she articulates a theory of ritualized violence. She analyzes ritual paradigms, metaphors, fictions, and poetic registers as oath-making principles, which she then traces through Homeric references and texts from the ancient New East. Discussing ritual features that are common to acts of religious violence throughout the world, Kitts makes use of the theory of ritual performance as communication.

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Milton's Epic Voice: The Narrator in Paradise Lost: Anne Ferry: 9780226244686: Amazon.com: Books

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Publication Date: October 15, 1983 | ISBN-10: 0226244687 | ISBN-13: 978-0226244686

Although Paradise Lost is one of the greatest poems in the English language, it is also among the most difficult and intimidating, especially to unsophisticated readers. One of the most accessible critical studies of Paradise Lost—and one frequently recommended by those teaching Milton—is Anne Ferry's Milton's Epic Voice.

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• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press (October 15, 1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0226244687
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Silius Italicus: Punica,Volume I,Books 1-8 (Loeb Classical Library No. 277): Silius Italicus,J. D. D

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Publication Date: January 1, 1934 | ISBN-10: 0674993055 | ISBN-13: 978-0674993051

Silius (T. Catius Silius Italicus), 25 CE–101, was consul in 68 and governor of the province of Asia in 69; he sought no further office but lived thereafter on his estates as a literary man and collector. He revered the work of Cicero, whose Tusculan villa he owned, and that of Virgil, whose tomb at Naples he likewise owned and near which he lived. His epic Punica, in 17 books, on the second War with Carthage (218–202 BCE), is based for facts largely on Livy's account. Conceived as a contrast between two great nations (and their supporting gods), championed by the two great heroes Scipio and Hannibal, his poem is written in pure Latin and smooth verse filled throughout with echoes of Virgil above all (and other poets); it exploits with easy grace, but little genius, all the devices and techniques of traditional Latin epic.

The Loeb Classical Library edition of Silius Italicus is in two volumes.

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	The Shah Namah: The Epic of Kings (Forgotten Books) Publication Date: February 6, 2008Book Description: "Shahname, or Shahnama "The Book of Kings", is an enormous poetic opus written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi around 1000 [AD] and is the national epic of the Persian speaking world. The Shahnameh tells the mythical and historical past of Iran from the creation of the world up until the Islamic conquest of Iran in the 7th century.Aside from its literary importance the Shahnameh, written in almost pure Persian, has been pivotal for reviving the Persian language subsequent to the influence of Arabic. This voluminous work, regarded by Persian sp...
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	Beowulf Publication Date: June 14, 2012This is a new modern English of the classic epic poem in full. Beowulf is an Old English heroic epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines, set in Scandinavia, commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature. Its composition by an anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet is dated between the 8th and the early 11th century. In the poem, Beowulf, a hero of the Geats in Scandinavia, comes to the help of Hroðgar, the king of the Danes, whose mead hall (Heorot) has been under attack by a being known as Grendel. After Beowulf slays him, G...
	The Odyssey Publication Date: August 26, 2002The Odyssey is considered to be one of the greatest pieces of world literature. Its basic story--the homecoming of Odysseus--is widely known. Although it has often been translated, earlier versions do not give the reader the full sense of its oral epic nature as a song that came into being through a long tradition of sung performances before writing was widely practiced. When finally written down, it retained its oral-formulaic nature in ways that are clearly discernible, and which this translation successfully captures. Rodney Merrill strictly adheres to the...
	Pound's Epic Ambition: Dante and the Modern World (Suny Series, the Margins of Literature) ...
	Poetry as Performance: Homer and Beyond Publication Date: January 26, 1996| ISBN-10: 0521558484 | ISBN-13: 978-0521558488| Edition: Cambridge This book is a comparative study of oral poetics in literate cultures, focusing on the problems of textual fluidity in the transmission of Homeric poetry over half a millennium, from the Archaic through the Hellenistic periods of ancient Greece.It stresses the role of performance and the performer in the re-creative process of composition-in-performance.It addresses questions of authority and authorship in the making of oral poetry, and it examines the efforts of ancient scholars to edit...
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	Epic and Epoch: History of a Genre (Studies in Comparative Literature) Publication Date: January 15, 1994| Series: Studies in Comparative Literature Epic and Epoch is a collection of essays based on the works of artists such as Homer, Vergil, Statius, Ovid, Dante, among others. The essays in this book are not only based on history, but on various interpretations of a genre. Rhetorical, literary historical, feminist, and cultural are a few of several perspectives represented in this book. ...
	Paradise Lost (Bloom's Reviews) Publication Date: July 1999| Series: Bloom's Reviews According to Harold Bloom, John Milton intended Paradise Lost to be a theodicy--justifying the ways of God to men and women. Examine various aspects of this work through some of the most prominent critics on the subject. A brief biography of Milton is included, along with thematic and structural analysis of his epic poem.This series is edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School. These texts are the ideal aid for all stu...
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	Homeric Moments: Clues to Delight in Reading the Odyssey and the Iliad Publication Date: September 1, 2002"Written with wit and clarity, this book will be of value to those reading the Odyssey and the Iliad for the first time and to those teaching it to beginners."-Library JournalIn 48 brief chapters, Eva Brann delves beneath the captivating surface of Homer's epics to explore the inner connections and layers of meaning that have made these intricately constructed works "the marvels of the ages." ...

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An inquiry into the rhythm of Milton's epic style. This is a matter concerning which the prosodists have had little to say, their main concern in "Paradise Lost" having been the individual line.

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	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. ...
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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 ...
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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....
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Epic Traditions in the Contemporary World: The Poetics of Community (Joan Palevsky Classic Literatur

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Publication Date: March 31, 1999 | Series: Joan Palevsky Classic Literature Book

The epic tradition has been part of many different cultures throughout human history. This noteworthy collection of essays provides a comparative reassessment of epic and its role in the ancient, medieval, and modern worlds, as it explores the variety of contemporary approaches to the epic genre. Employing theoretical perspectives drawn from anthropology, literary studies, and gender studies, the authors examine familiar and less well known oral and literary traditions--ancient Greek and Latin, Arabic, South Slavic, Indian, Native American, Italian, English, and Caribbean--demonstrating the continuing vitality of the epic tradition.
Juxtaposing work on the traditional canon of western epics with scholarship on contemporary epics from various parts of the world, these essays cross the divide between oral and literary forms that has long marked the approach to the genre. With its focus on the links among narrative, politics, and performance, the collection creates a new dialogue illustrating the sociopolitical significance of the epic tradition. Taken together, the essays raise compelling new issues for the study of epic, as they examine concerns such as national identity, gender, pedagogy, and the creation of the canon.

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	Debbie: An Epic Publication Date: November 1997Poetry. One of the more remarkable books of poetry to appear in a long time, Lisa Robertson's DEBBIE:AN EPIC was a finalist for the 1998 Governor General's Award for Poetry. As arresting as the cover image, Robertson's strong, confident voice echoes a wide range of influences from Virgil to Edith Sitwell, yet remains unique and utterly unmistakable for that of any other writer. Brainy, witty, sensual, demonstrating a commanding grasp of language and rhetoric, DEBBIE:AN EPIC is nevertheless inviting and easy to read, even fun. Its eponymous heroine will annihila...
	The Odyssey Publication Date: August 26, 2002The Odyssey is considered to be one of the greatest pieces of world literature. Its basic story--the homecoming of Odysseus--is widely known. Although it has often been translated, earlier versions do not give the reader the full sense of its oral epic nature as a song that came into being through a long tradition of sung performances before writing was widely practiced. When finally written down, it retained its oral-formulaic nature in ways that are clearly discernible, and which this translation successfully captures. Rodney Merrill strictly adheres to the...
	Beowulf Publication Date: June 14, 2012This is a new modern English of the classic epic poem in full. Beowulf is an Old English heroic epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines, set in Scandinavia, commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature. Its composition by an anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet is dated between the 8th and the early 11th century. In the poem, Beowulf, a hero of the Geats in Scandinavia, comes to the help of Hroðgar, the king of the Danes, whose mead hall (Heorot) has been under attack by a being known as Grendel. After Beowulf slays him, G...
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	Milton's Epic Voice: The Narrator in Paradise Lost Publication Date: October 15, 1983| ISBN-10: 0226244687 | ISBN-13: 978-0226244686Although Paradise Lost is one of the greatest poems in the English language, it is also among the most difficult and intimidating, especially to unsophisticated readers. One of the most accessible critical studies of Paradise Lost—and one frequently recommended by those teaching Milton—is Anne Ferry's Milton's Epic Voice. ...
	America Bound: An Epic for Our Time Publication Date: February 15, 2007In this richly polyphonic text, Radavich couples narrative verse with interlocking dramatic monologues to deliver a revisionist history of America since the second World War - an account across generations so inclusive as to seem Whitmanesque - encompassing personal and national identities, conscience and community. 'I hear the voices of America,' writes Radavich, and through them AMERICA BOUND renders a cultural landscape altered in the wake of the Twentieth Century. By 'listening to the voices of those who lived simply for themselves and others in the hea...
	Gilgamesh Release Date: October 19, 2004In his thrillingly contemporary retelling of the world’s oldest epic, award-winning poet Derrek Hines brings us as close as we may ever come to re-creating the power it had over its original listeners more than four thousand years ago in the ancient Near East.Gilgamesh, the semi-divine ruler of Uruk, is a larger-than-life bully and abuser of his people. In order to tame the arrogant king, the gods create the wild and handsome Enkidu. But after Enkidu and Gilgamesh become fast friends, they defy the gods in a series of outsized adventures that brings Gilga...
	Authors to Themselves: Milton and the Revelation of History (Studies in Interdisciplinary History) Publication Date: January 29, 1988| ISBN-10: 0521340373 | ISBN-13: 978-0521340373Grossman examines the narrative form of Paradise Lost to discover Milton's thoroughly modern concept of self. Banished from paradise, the epic poem's protagonists become "authors to themselves in all/Both what they judge and what they choose," left to create their own story in relation to the story already written by God. Grossman believes the resulting structure of the poem must be understood in the context of seventeenth-century historical and theological developments, specifically Bacon's notion of histor...
	Backbone Publication Date: October 20, 2000A book of poetry from the heart and Soul of a woman. ...
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	Silius Italicus: Punica, Volume I, Books 1-8 (Loeb Classical Library No. 277) Publication Date: January 1, 1934| ISBN-10: 0674993055 | ISBN-13: 978-0674993051Silius (T. Catius Silius Italicus), 25 CE–101, was consul in 68 and governor of the province of Asia in 69; he sought no further office but lived thereafter on his estates as a literary man and collector. He revered the work of Cicero, whose Tusculan villa he owned, and that of Virgil, whose tomb at Naples he likewise owned and near which he lived. His epic Punica, in 17 books, on the second War with Carthage (218–202 BCE), is based for facts largely on Livy's account. Conceived as a contrast be...
	The Destruction of the Inn (Ulster Cycle) Publication Date: April 7, 2001| Series: Ulster Cycle (Book 4) Randy Lee Eickhoff continues the Celtic Ulster Cycle; following up his highly acclaimed retelling of The Three Sorrows, with The Destruction of the Inn. Part impacted myth, part heroic saga, and part literary tour de force; this is the tale of a king who dares to ignore the prophecy that foretells his fate.Conaire Mór's reign has ushered in a period of great happiness and good fortune, but his three foster brothers take advantage of his position and plunder the countryside. Conaire refuses to put them to death, however, and ...
	A Time Before Slaughter Publication Date: November 1, 2009In this epic poem, Paul Nelson re-enacts the history of Auburn, Washington, originally known as the town of Slaughter. Written in the spirit of William Carlos Williams, Charles Olson, and Michael McClure, A Time Before Slaughter explores the history of this Northwestern place from the myths of Native people to the xenophobia toward Japanese-Americans, from the urge to control to the hunger for liberation.Set against the backdrop of a towering dormant volcano (Mt. Rainier), the beauty of the verse pays homage to the beauty of the place. "Here's one more big h...
	Poetry as Performance: Homer and Beyond Publication Date: January 26, 1996| ISBN-10: 0521558484 | ISBN-13: 978-0521558488| Edition: Cambridge This book is a comparative study of oral poetics in literate cultures, focusing on the problems of textual fluidity in the transmission of Homeric poetry over half a millennium, from the Archaic through the Hellenistic periods of ancient Greece.It stresses the role of performance and the performer in the re-creative process of composition-in-performance.It addresses questions of authority and authorship in the making of oral poetry, and it examines the efforts of ancient scholars to edit...
	The Iliad of Homer (The Library of Liberal Arts) Publication Date: May 30, 1991| ISBN-10: 0195068254 | ISBN-13: 978-0195068252This translation of Homer's "Iliad" by the poet and classicist Ennis Rees attempts to be both faithful to the original and accessible to the modern reader. ...
	Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society: Oath-Making Rituals in the Iliad Publication Date: November 7, 2005| ISBN-10: 0521855292 | ISBN-13: 978-0521855297| Edition: 1St Edition In Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society, Margo Kitts focuses on oath-making narratives found in the Iliad through which she articulates a theory of ritualized violence. She analyzes ritual paradigms, metaphors, fictions, and poetic registers as oath-making principles, which she then traces through Homeric references and texts from the ancient New East. Discussing ritual features that are common to acts of religious violence throughout the world, Kitts makes use of the theory of ritua...
	The Shah Namah: The Epic of Kings (Forgotten Books) Publication Date: February 6, 2008Book Description: "Shahname, or Shahnama "The Book of Kings", is an enormous poetic opus written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi around 1000 [AD] and is the national epic of the Persian speaking world. The Shahnameh tells the mythical and historical past of Iran from the creation of the world up until the Islamic conquest of Iran in the 7th century.Aside from its literary importance the Shahnameh, written in almost pure Persian, has been pivotal for reviving the Persian language subsequent to the influence of Arabic. This voluminous work, regarded by Persian sp...
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	The Song of Girart of Vienne by Bertrand De Bar-Sur-Aube: A Twelfth-Century Chanson De Geste (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies) Publication Date: June 1999| Series: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in th...
	Inconsistency in Roman Epic: Studies in Catullus, Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid and Lucan (Roman Literature and its Contexts) Publication Date: May 14, 2007| ISBN-10: 0521646421 | ISBN-13: 978-0521646420How should we react as readers and as critics when two passages in a literary work contradict one another? Classicists once assumed that all inconsistencies in ancient texts needed to be amended, explained away, or lamented. Building on recent work on both Greek and Roman authors, this book explores the possibility of interpreting inconsistencies in Roman epic. After a chapter surveying Greek background material including Homer, tragedy, Plato and the Alexandrians, five chapters argue that comparative study of t...

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The letter before A is silence. -- Juan Sweeney from the Translator's Note: Little is known about the life of Juan Sweeney de las Minas de Cobre. He grew up between Andalusia, Ireland, Oklahoma and Bolivia, lived centuries ago and has yet to be born. Vicente Huidobro wrote in a letter to Sweeney, “Reading these poems, one desires annihilation and love in equal measures. One tastes metal, as of an asteroid belt of old trains passing overhead.” Juan Sweeney preferred riding on the backs of trains to being seated inside; he loved cheese and whiskey and has often been compared to the troubadour poet, Cavalcanti, for his lifestyle of travel and intrigues with women of court. He inspired the characterization of Cervantes’ journeyman, Don Quixote, and paradoxically of Byron’s archetypical hero. I found these poems on shreds of paper in the walls of Sweeney Castle in Oklahoma, where I was born and where Sweeney de las Minas de Cobre presumably passed away, though his body soon disappeared from the family crypt.

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	Counterpoint and Symbol Publication Date: February 1982An inquiry into the rhythm of Milton's epic style. This is a matter concerning which the prosodists have had little to say, their main concern in "Paradise Lost" having been the individual line.THIS TITLE IS CITED AND RECOMMENDED BY:Books for College Libraries. ...
	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 ...
	Rediscovering Homer: Inside the Origins of the Epic ...
	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...
	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." ...
	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...
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	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 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...
	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...
	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. ...
	Human Landscapes from My Country: An Epic Novel in Verse Publication Date: May 2002On the occasion of the poet's one-hundredth birthday, this masterwork is at last available in its entirety in English. When, on the eve of the Second World War, Nazim Hikmet (1902-1963)—Turkey's most acclaimed and popular poet—was sentenced to twenty-eight years in prison for his Communist beliefs, he embarked on the writing of his epic, Human Landscapes from My Country. This 17,000-line verse-novel is made up of a traveler's vivid encounters with Turkish men and women from all walks of life. In colloquial language, Hikmet stages their private hopes and gr...
	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 ...
	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...
	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...
	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....
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	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. ...
	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 ...

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	Milton's Epic Voice: The Narrator in Paradise Lost Publication Date: October 15, 1983| ISBN-10: 0226244687 | ISBN-13: 978-0226244686Although Paradise Lost is one of the greatest poems in the English language, it is also among the most difficult and intimidating, especially to unsophisticated readers. One of the most accessible critical studies of Paradise Lost—and one frequently recommended by those teaching Milton—is Anne Ferry's Milton's Epic Voice. ...
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	Understanding Great Literature - Understanding Beowulf Publication Date: October 17, 2003| Series: Understanding Great Literature The Old English poem Beowulf describes a world of kings, knights, demons, and epic battles between the forces of good and evil.Through vivid descriptions of Germanic society, the anonymous Beowulf poet also describes the complex, often-violent world of a people still making the transition from paganism to Christianity.This useful and comprehensive volume offers students of the poem a guide to the history of its creation, as well as a summary of its plot, characters, and principal themes. (20020701) ...
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	Silius Italicus: Punica, Volume I, Books 1-8 (Loeb Classical Library No. 277) Publication Date: January 1, 1934| ISBN-10: 0674993055 | ISBN-13: 978-0674993051Silius (T. Catius Silius Italicus), 25 CE–101, was consul in 68 and governor of the province of Asia in 69; he sought no further office but lived thereafter on his estates as a literary man and collector. He revered the work of Cicero, whose Tusculan villa he owned, and that of Virgil, whose tomb at Naples he likewise owned and near which he lived. His epic Punica, in 17 books, on the second War with Carthage (218–202 BCE), is based for facts largely on Livy's account. Conceived as a contrast be...
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	Beowulf Publication Date: June 14, 2012This is a new modern English of the classic epic poem in full. Beowulf is an Old English heroic epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines, set in Scandinavia, commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature. Its composition by an anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet is dated between the 8th and the early 11th century. In the poem, Beowulf, a hero of the Geats in Scandinavia, comes to the help of Hroðgar, the king of the Danes, whose mead hall (Heorot) has been under attack by a being known as Grendel. After Beowulf slays him, G...
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Publication Date: November 27, 1987 | Series: Landmarks of World Literature

Jasper Griffin discusses the background of the poem, The Odyssey, in oral poetry. He shows that the epic has a coherent structure built upon the interplay of themes such as travel, hospitality, loyalty, family affection, and a keen and discerning interest in women.

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	Grendel Release Date: August 12, 1971The first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic BEOWULF, tells his side of the story. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
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	Homer's The Odyssey (Barron's Book Notes) Publication Date: October 1, 1984| Series: Barron's Book Notes Plot synopsis of this classic is made meaningful with analysis and quotes by noted literary critics, summaries of the work's main themes and characters, a sketch of the author's life and times, a bibliography, suggested test questions, and ideas for essays and term papers. ...
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	The Triumph of Odysseus: Homer's Odyssey Books 21 and 22 (Reading Greek) Publication Date: October 28, 1996| ISBN-10: 0521465877 | ISBN-13: 978-0521465878This book is part of the Reading Greek course. It is modeled on the already published A World of Heroes (CUP, 1979) and The Intellectual Revolution (CUP, 1980) and provides an unabridged text of Books 21 and 22 of Homer's Odyssey. The Greek text is faced with a running vocabulary and notes, and followed by a learning vocabulary, and the book is illustrated throughout. It can be used by anyone who has completed Reading Greek or is at an intermediate or advanced stage of ancient Greek. ...
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	Ami and Amile: A Medieval Tale of Friendship, Translated from the Old French (Stylus: Studies in Medieval Culture) Publication Date: February 1, 1997| ISBN-10: 0472066471This prose translation of the medieval French verse narrative Ami and Amile recounts the legendary friendship of two valiant knights who are as indistinguishable as twin brothers. Ami and Amile serve Charlemagne together, face together the hatred of an archetypal villain, confront the daunting challenges of women and love, and accept extraordinary sacrifices for each other's sake. Miracles mark the end of their lives, and their shared tomb becomes a pilgrims' shrine.The compelling translation by Samuel N. Rosenberg and Samuel Danon is ...
	Homer / The Odyssey Release Date: November 1, 1996By its evocation of a real or imaged heroic age, its contrasts of character and its variety of adventure, above all by its sheer narrative power, the Odyssey has won and preserved its place among the greatest tales in the world. It tells of Odysseus' adventurous wanderings as he returns from the long war at Troy to his home in the Greek island of Ithaca, where his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus have been waiting for him for twenty years. He meets a one-eyed giant, Polyphemus the Cyclops; he visits the underworld; he faces the terrible monsters Scylla and C...
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	Milton's Epic Voice: The Narrator in Paradise Lost Publication Date: October 15, 1983| ISBN-10: 0226244687 | ISBN-13: 978-0226244686Although Paradise Lost is one of the greatest poems in the English language, it is also among the most difficult and intimidating, especially to unsophisticated readers. One of the most accessible critical studies of Paradise Lost—and one frequently recommended by those teaching Milton—is Anne Ferry's Milton's Epic Voice. ...

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Publication Date: November 1997

Poetry. One of the more remarkable books of poetry to appear in a long time, Lisa Robertson's DEBBIE:AN EPIC was a finalist for the 1998 Governor General's Award for Poetry. As arresting as the cover image, Robertson's strong, confident voice echoes a wide range of influences from Virgil to Edith Sitwell, yet remains unique and utterly unmistakable for that of any other writer. Brainy, witty, sensual, demonstrating a commanding grasp of language and rhetoric, DEBBIE:AN EPIC is nevertheless inviting and easy to read, even fun. Its eponymous heroine will annihilate your preconceptions about poetry - and about the name "Debbie."

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	Poetry as Performance: Homer and Beyond Publication Date: January 26, 1996| ISBN-10: 0521558484 | ISBN-13: 978-0521558488| Edition: Cambridge This book is a comparative study of oral poetics in literate cultures, focusing on the problems of textual fluidity in the transmission of Homeric poetry over half a millennium, from the Archaic through the Hellenistic periods of ancient Greece.It stresses the role of performance and the performer in the re-creative process of composition-in-performance.It addresses questions of authority and authorship in the making of oral poetry, and it examines the efforts of ancient scholars to edit...
	Homeric Moments: Clues to Delight in Reading the Odyssey and the Iliad Publication Date: September 1, 2002"Written with wit and clarity, this book will be of value to those reading the Odyssey and the Iliad for the first time and to those teaching it to beginners."-Library JournalIn 48 brief chapters, Eva Brann delves beneath the captivating surface of Homer's epics to explore the inner connections and layers of meaning that have made these intricately constructed works "the marvels of the ages." ...
	Les Chetifs: Volume 5 of the Old French Crusade Cycle Publication Date: September 30, 1981| ISBN-10: 0817300236 | ISBN-13: 978-0817300234The Old French Crusade Cycle consists of a series of epic poems that together form a cycle concerning the First Crusade and the legendary events associated with Godefroi de Buillon. The entire cycle comprises eight volumes, which are being published as editing is completed. In Volume V, Les Chetifs(The Captives), the fabulous adventures of a group of crusaders captured by the Saracens are recounted. The present edition is based on the best extant verse manuscript (Paris, Bibliotheque National, Fonds F...
	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...
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	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." ...
	Paradise Lost (Bloom's Reviews) Publication Date: July 1999| Series: Bloom's Reviews According to Harold Bloom, John Milton intended Paradise Lost to be a theodicy--justifying the ways of God to men and women. Examine various aspects of this work through some of the most prominent critics on the subject. A brief biography of Milton is included, along with thematic and structural analysis of his epic poem.This series is edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School. These texts are the ideal aid for all stu...
	Regarding Penelope: From Character to Poetics ...
	Epic and Epoch: History of a Genre (Studies in Comparative Literature) Publication Date: January 15, 1994| Series: Studies in Comparative Literature Epic and Epoch is a collection of essays based on the works of artists such as Homer, Vergil, Statius, Ovid, Dante, among others. The essays in this book are not only based on history, but on various interpretations of a genre. Rhetorical, literary historical, feminist, and cultural are a few of several perspectives represented in this book. ...
	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...
	Counterpoint and Symbol Publication Date: February 1982An inquiry into the rhythm of Milton's epic style. This is a matter concerning which the prosodists have had little to say, their main concern in "Paradise Lost" having been the individual line.THIS TITLE IS CITED AND RECOMMENDED BY:Books for College Libraries. ...
	Backbone Publication Date: October 20, 2000A book of poetry from the heart and Soul of a woman. ...
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Inconsistency in Roman Epic: Studies in Catullus,Lucretius,Vergil,Ovid and Lucan (Roman Literature a

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Publication Date: May 14, 2007 | ISBN-10: 0521646421 | ISBN-13: 978-0521646420

How should we react as readers and as critics when two passages in a literary work contradict one another? Classicists once assumed that all inconsistencies in ancient texts needed to be amended, explained away, or lamented. Building on recent work on both Greek and Roman authors, this book explores the possibility of interpreting inconsistencies in Roman epic. After a chapter surveying Greek background material including Homer, tragedy, Plato and the Alexandrians, five chapters argue that comparative study of the literary use of inconsistencies can shed light on major problems in Catullus' Peleus and Thetis, Lucretius' De Rerum Natura, Vergil's Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Lucan's Bellum Civile. Not all inconsistencies can or should be interpreted thematically, but numerous details in these poems, and some ancient and modern theorists, suggest that we can be better readers if we consider how inconsistencies may be functioning in Greek and Roman texts.

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