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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Foerster, Donald M. (Donald Madison), 1914-1961. Fortunes of epic poetry. [Washington] Catholic University of America Press, 1962 (OCoLC)590438624 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Donald M Foerster |
| OCLC Number: | 236336 |
| Description: | 250 p. 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Homage and doubt in the neo-classical period -- English romantic concepts of the epic and criticism of Dante and Milton -- The early epic in the age of Wordsworth: Homer, Ossian, and Virgil -- The epic in an epic land: American theory, 1812-1860 -- The pendulum begins to swing: Victorian estimates, 1832-1880 -- Epic, lyric, or novel? Intensification of a rivalry around 1900 -- Epilogue -- the epic in an age of disillusionment, 1910-1950. |
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