Romantic Poets and Epic Tradition

action Aeneas Aeneid beauty believe Book Byron C-PB Canto claims critics Cythna's Dante definitive describes Don Juan E. M. W. Tillyard emphasis English epic poetry epic poets epic theory epic tradition episode example express fact Fall of Hyperion Gebir hero heroic ideal heroism Homer human Hyperion Hyperion poems idea Iliad imaginative imitation important Joan of Arc John Keats Keats Keats's Kehama kind Landor Laon Laon's later letter literary epic machinery Madoc metaphor Milton mind mock-epic modern moral narrative nature neoclassic ordeal Paradise Lost paradox passage passion past pattern poem poem's poet's poetic poetry Preface Prelude prophetic readers rejects Revolt of Islam Romantic poets Saturn scene seems sense Shelley Shelley's simply Southey's Spenser spirit standard epic stanzas statement suffering Tasso Thalaba thematic theme things tion Titans tone traditional epic true truth values verse Virgil vision words Wordsworth write