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"Every great civilisation from the Bronze Age to the present day has produced epic poems. Epic poetry has always had a profound influence on other literary genres, including its own parody in the form of mock-epic. This Companion surveys over four thousand years of epic poetry from the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh to Derek Walcott's postcolonial Omeros. The list of epic poets analysed here includes some of the greatest writers in literary history in Europe and beyond: Homer, Virgil, Dante, Camões, Spenser, Milton, Wordsworth, Keats and Pound, among others. Each essay, by an expert in the field, pays close attention to the way these writers have intimately influenced one another to form a distinctive and cross-cultural literary tradition. Unique in its coverage of the vast scope of that tradition, this book is an essential companion for students of literature of all kinds and in all ages"--Provided by publisher.

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The Cambridge companion to the epic
2010, Cambridge University Press
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The Cambridge companion to the epic
2010, Cambridge University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New York
Series
Cambridge companions to literature

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
809.1/32
Library of Congress
PN1303 .C36 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23963142M
Internet Archive
cambridgecompani0000unse_u2z1
ISBN 13
9780521880947
LCCN
2009051399
OCLC/WorldCat
477273668

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