The English Epic and Its Background

Achilles action Aeneas Aeneid Africa allegory ancients Arcadia Ariosto Aristotle battle beginning Beowulf Boccaccio Bunyan C. S. Lewis Camoens century chapter character Chaucer Christian classical criticism Dante described divine Divine Comedy Dryden Elizabethan England English epic epic form episode example Faerie Queene French Gibbon Greek Henry hero Herodotus heroic poem Holy Homer human idea Iliad imitation Italian kind King Langland Latin less literary forms literature Lucan Lusiad Lydgate matter medieval Middle Ages Milton mind 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 rhetoric Roland Roman Rome sense Shakespeare shows Sidney Spenser spirit stanza Statius story style Tasso theme things thought tradition tragedy translation Trojan true epic verse Virgil writing wrote Xenophon