The Epic

Achilles Æneid Apollonius Apollonius Rhodius Argonautica artistic purpose authentic epic ballads bards Battle of Kossovo Beowulf called epic Camoens and Tasso chanson chiefly civilization composed consciousness courage deliberate destiny development of epic diction difference drama early epics Eneid epic development epic intention epic manner epic material epic poet epic poetry epic purpose epic symbolism existence experience of reading fact Faery Queene genius gods happen heroes Heroic Age Hesiod Homer human experience Idylls Iliad imagination individual instance Jason kind later epic legend literary epic Lucan Lucretius Lusiads man's matter mean Miltonic significance narrative nature of epic Nibelungenlied Odyssey Paradise Lost peculiar perhaps Pharsalia poem poet's poetic poets of authentic primitive process of epic regular epic Roman Satan savagery scarcely seems sense Sigurd the Volsung simply Song of Roland spirit story style supernatural machinery Tasso and Camoens thing tion tradition Virgil whole word epic