The Cambridge companion to the epic /
Bates, Catherine,1964-
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,
2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The epic of Gilgamesh / A. R. George -- Greek epic / Jasper Griffin -- Roman epic / Peter Toohey -- Heroic epic poetry in the Middle Ages / Karl Reichl -- Dante and the epic of transcendence / John Freccero -- Italian Renaissance epic / Giuseppe Mazzotta -- Camões's Os Lusíadas: the first modern epic / George Monteiro -- The Faerie Queene: Britain's national monument / Cathrine Bates -- The seventeenth-century Protestant English epic / David Loewenstein -- Mock-heroic and English poetry / Claude Rawson -- Romantic re-appropriations of the epic / Michael O'Neill -- Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and the modern epic / John Whittier-Ferguson -- Derek Walcott's Omeros / Robert Hamner -- Epic in translation / Paul Merchant.
Epic poetry