The English Epic and Its Background

Achilles action Aeneas Aeneid allegory ancients Arcadia Ariosto Aristotle battle beginning Boccaccio Bunyan C. S. Lewis Camoens century chapter character Chaucer Christian Civil classical Cowley critical Dante described Dryden Elizabethan England English epic epic form epic writer episode Faerie Queene Fénelon French Gibbon Greek Henry hero Herodotus heroic poem Holy Homer Homer and Virgil human Iliad imitation Italian kind King Langland Latin less literary literature Lucan Lusiad Mansoul matter medieval Middle Ages Milton mind modern moral narrative nature neo-classic neo-classicism never Odyssey original Paradise Lost passage passion Petrarch Piers Plowman Pilgrim's Progress pilgrimage plot poet poetic poetry political Pope Pope's preface Prince prose Puritan reader religious Renaissance Roman Rome Shakespeare shows Sidney Spenser spirit stanza Statius story style Tasso Telemachus Télémaque theme things thought tradition tragedy translation Trojan Troy true epic Tudor verse Virgil writing wrote Xenophon