Author: Charles Rathbone Low
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 362

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Author: Herbert F. Tucker
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199232997
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 748

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Literary history has conventionally viewed Milton as the last real practitioner of the epic in English verse. Herbert Tucker's spirited book shows that the British tradition of epic poetry was unbroken from the French Revolution to World War I.

Author: Simon Dentith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139457098
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 10

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In the nineteenth century, epic poetry in the Homeric style was widely seen as an ancient and anachronistic genre, yet Victorian authors worked to recreate it for the modern world. Simon Dentith explores the relationship between epic and the evolution of Britain's national identity in the nineteenth century up to the apparent demise of all notions of heroic warfare in the catastrophe of the First World War. Paradoxically, writers found equivalents of the societies which produced Homeric or Northern epics not in Europe, but on the margins of empire and among its subject peoples. Dentith considers the implications of the status of epic for a range of nineteenth-century writers, including Walter Scott, Matthew Arnold, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William Morris and Rudyard Kipling. He also considers the relationship between epic poetry and the novel and discusses late nineteenth-century adventure novels, concluding with a brief survey of epic in the twentieth century.

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Languages : en
Pages : 1604

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Author: University of California, Davis. Library
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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Author:
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 842

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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1622

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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1640

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Languages : en
Pages : 636

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Languages : en
Pages : 640

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