Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of Michigan and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.

493 pages 21 cm

Introduction / J. Berg Esenwein -- Greek epics -- The Iliad -- The Odyssey -- Latin epics -- The Aeneid -- French epics -- The song of Roland -- Aucassin and Nicolette -- Spanish epics -- The Cid -- Portuguese epics -- The Lusiad -- Italian epics -- Divine comedy -- The Inferno -- Purgatory -- Paradise -- The Orlandos -- Gerusalemme liberata, or Jerusalem delivered -- Epics of the British Isles -- Beowulf -- The Arthurian cycle -- Robin Hood -- The Faerie queene -- Paradise lost -- Paradise regained -- German epics -- The Nibelungenlied -- Story of the Holy Grail -- Epics of the Netherlands -- Scandinavian epics -- The Volsunga saga -- Russian and Finnish epics -- The Kalevala, or The land of heroes -- Epics of Central Europe and of the Balkan Peninsula -- Hebrew and early Christian epics -- Arabian and Persian epics -- The Shah-nameh, or Epic of kings -- Indian epics -- The Ramayana -- The Mahabharata -- Chinese and Japanese poetry -- American epics

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