| Description |
xxiv, 398 pages ; 21 cm |
| Note |
"An unaltered and unabridged republication of the second revised edition originally published ... in 1908." |
| Contents |
The heroic age -- Epic and romance -- Romantic mythology -- The three schools-Teutonic Epic-French Epic-The Icelandic histories -- THe Teutonic Epic -- The tragic conception -- Scale of the poems -- Epic and Ballad poetry -- The style of the poems -- The progress of epic -- Beowulf -- The Icelandic Sagas -- Iceland and the heroic age -- Matter and form -- The heroic ideal -- Tragic imagination -- Comedy -- The art of narrative -- Epic and history -- The northern prose romances -- The old French Epic -- Romance and the old French romantic school. |
| Subject |
Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.
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Literature, Medieval. |
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Epic poetry -- History and criticism.
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Epic poetry. |
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Romances -- History and criticism.
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Romances. |
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