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Heroes, Gods and the Role of Epiphany in English Epic Poetry

Heroes, Gods and the Role of Epiphany in English Epic Poetry

Risden, E. L.

Paperback

Literary CriticismPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 0786435410
ISBN13: 9780786435418
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Jun 1 2008
Pages: 210
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

This book examines how epic poetry reflects cultural values, and how, in epic poems, the heroes must meet supernatural beings to find answers to essential questions. It begins with three chapters on ancient poetry (including The Iliad and The Odyssey, the Mahabharata, the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Aeneid and the Bhagavad Gita). Subsequent chapters take up the main subject of the book, examining the evolution of English epic poetry from the anonymous Old English Beowulf to Spenser's The Faerie Queen, Milton's Paradise Lost, Blake's Milton, Wordsworth's The Prelude, Barett Browning's Aurora Leigh and Derek Walcott's 1990 poem Omeros.

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