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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Folk Destinies | 3 |
The Signal Fires | 49 |
The Man of Many Turns | 120 |
Copyright | |
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abstract accents Achaeans Achilles action Adam Aeneas Aeneid Agamemnon Alexandrian allegorical analogy angels ballad battle become Beowulf caesura Callimachus Catullus character classical complex contrast Dante Dante's death destiny diction earth echo Eclogues effect emotion end-stopped epic poem epithet fatum feeling figure fire Georgics give gods half-line Hector Helen hero hero's hexameter Homer human Iliad imagined implied language light literal lyric poetry meaning Menelaus metaphor Milton mortality moves mystery myth narrative natural ness Nestor normative Odysseus once Paradise Lost particular Patroklos pattern pause Phaeacians physical poem's poet poetic precision present Priam Propertius Purgatory refined style rhetorical rhyme rhythm rhythmic Roland Satan Scyld sense shepherd simile simple single souls speaks speech spiritual stands statement structure syllables syntactic syntax Theocritus tion transcends Trojans trope Troy umbrae Unferth verb Vergil Vergilian verse voice weeping whole words wounded Zeus