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082			_a809.132 _bCAM
245	1	0	_aThe Cambridge companion to the epic
260			_aNew York _bCambridge University Press _c2010
300			_a279p.
520			_aEvery great civilisation from the Bronze Age to the present day has produced epic poems. Epic poetry has always had a profound influence on other literary genres, including its own parody in the form of mock-epic. This Companion surveys over four thousand years of epic poetry from the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh to Derek Walcott's postcolonial Omeros. The list of epic poets analysed here includes some of the greatest writers in literary history in Europe and beyond: Homer, Virgil, Dante, Camões, Spenser, Milton, Wordsworth, Keats and Pound, among others. Each essay, by an expert in the field, pays close attention to the way these writers have intimately influenced one another to form a distinctive and cross-cultural literary tradition. Unique in its coverage of the vast scope of that tradition, this book is an essential companion for students of literature of all kinds and in all ages.
650			_aLiterature
650	0		_aLiterature-history and criticism
650	0		_aGreek epic
650	0		_aRoman epic
700			_aBates, Catherine, ed.
942			_cBK
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