The epic. / Paul Merchant.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Merchant, Paul.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Critical idiom ; 17.

The Critical idiom ; 17

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Epic literature--History and criticism.

Epic literature.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

viii, 103 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 20 cm.

Manufacture:

Fakenham, Norfolk : Printed by Cox & Wyman Ltd.

Place of Publication:

[London] : Methuen & Co. Ltd., [1971]

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Classical Epic. Oral Epic; Homer and the Old Testament; Heroic Epic: Iliad and Beowulf; Vergil, Aeneid; Ovid, Metamorphoses; Lucan, Pharsalia

3. New Form. Dante, La Divina Commedia; Langland and Chaucer

4. Renaissance and Later Epic. Spenser, The Faerie Queene; Milton, Paradise Lost; Mock-Epic and Imitation: Pope to Tennyson

5. Forms of Modern Epic. The novel; Epic theatre; Modern epic poetry.

Notes:

"First published 1971."

"Distributed in the U.S.A. by Harper & Row Publishers, Inc. Barnes & Noble Import Division."

Includes bibliographical references (pages [95]-98) and index.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1979".

Potok Collection copy is 1977 reprint.

ISBN:

041619690X

0416197000

OCLC:

156679