The Classic Line: A Study in Epic PoetryFocusing particular attention on "Beowulf", "Roland", the "Cid", the "Iliad", the "Odyssey", the "Aeneid", the "Divine comedy", and "Paradise lost", the author examines the formal rhetorical and syntactical features in these poems. |
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Contents
The Signal Fires | 49 |
The Man of Many Turns | 120 |
The Refined Style | 141 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Classic Line: A Study in Epic Poetry |
| Author | Albert Cook |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press, 1966 |
| Original from | Library of Catalonia, the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 25 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 314 pages |
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