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Addison, Joseph 196 Baudelaire, Charles 177, 187, 188 Aeneid 15–16, 29, 31, 34, 36, 39–41, 44, 45, Bellum Civile (also known as Pharsalia) 48, 49, 51, 52, 66, 110, 111, 119, 122, 34, 39, 46, 50–1, 147, 247, 250 130, 134, 135, 140, 143, 167, 177, 178, see also Lucan 193, 239, 246, 250, 251, 254, 255, 259 Beowulf 13, 22, 55, 56, 58, 59, 62–9, 72, 73, see also Virgil 74, 246, 253, 256 Aeschylus 21, 51, 199, 259 Bible, The 2, 14, 29, 43, 66, 80, 81, 83, Alberti, Leon Battista 97, 106 85, 88, 114, 115, 117, 139, 146, 149, Alcuin 55, 63, 68 151, 152, 153, 154, 156, 157, 158, 159, Alexander, Michael 253 162, 163, 164–5, 173, 246, 247, 248, Ambrose 81, 82 251, 257, 259 Andreas 66 Bishop, Elizabeth 124–5 Andrews, Lancelot 248 Blackmore, Richard 168, 172 Apollonius of Rhodes 28, 29, 41, 48, 52 Blake, William 183, 184, 202, 205–6 see also Argonautica see also Jerusalem Aquinas, Thomas 98, 114 Boccaccio, Giovanni 94, 100, 114, 249 Argonautica 28, 46–8 see also Teseida see also Apollonius of Rhodes; Valerius Boethius 66, 111 Flaccus, Gaius Boiardo, Matteo Maria 93, 94, 95, Ariosto, Ludovico 93, 94, 95, 96–7, 99, 96–7, 99–105, 106, 107, 108, 110, 106–11, 112, 113, 114, 136, 149, 112, 113 182, 201, 250 see also Orlando Innamorato see also Orlando Furioso Boileau, Nicolas 168, 171, 173, 174, Aristotle 21, 43, 52, 96, 112, 114 176–7, 178, 179 see also Poetics see also Lutrin, Le Arnold, Matthew 58, 186, 187, 214, Borges, Jorge Luis 130 251–2 Bothie of Tober-na-Voulich, The 252 see also Sohrab and Rustum see also Clough, Arthur Hugh Auden, W. H. 187, 261 Bowra, C. M. 119, 125 Auerbach, Eric 80, 86, 119 Bradley, F. H. 215 Augustine 77, 78, 79, 81, 82, 86, Brecht, Bertolt 180, 190, 259 87–9, 90 Browning, Robert 225, 261 Brynhild’s Ride to Hel 61, 69 Batrachomyomachia 21, 31, 176, 248 Bunting, Basil 253 Battle of the Books, The 171, 172–3 Burton, Richard 126 see also Swift, Jonathan Byron, Lord 169, 183, 184–5, 186, 190, Battle of the Frogs and Mice 199, 206–7 see Batrachomyomachia see also Don Juan; Manfred

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Callimachus 29, 41, 52 Discourses on the Heroic Poem 96, 105, 112, Cambridge, Richard Owen 182 113–14, 140, 150 see also Scribleriad see also Tasso, Torquato Camo˜ es, Luis Vaz de 119–30, 148 Dispensary, The 172, 182 see also Lusı´adas, Os see also Garth, Samuel Campbell, Roy 122, 127, 129 Divine Comedy, The 77–91, 94, 198, 208, Cantar de Mio Cid 17, 73–4 242, 249, 251, 255 Cantos 167, 185, 186, 211–12, 217, see also Dante 218–32, 249, 253, 255, 258, 262 Divus, Andreas 211, 212, 220, 221, 226 see also Pound, Ezra Don Juan 167, 183, 184, 185, 206–7, Carmen de Hastingae proelio 69 252, 260, 261 Catullus, Gaius Valerius 31, 36, 41, 42, 52 see also Byron, Lord Cavalcanti, Guido 78, 88 Don Quixote 77, 137, 250 Cervantes, Miguel de 77, 121, 137, 182, 257 see also Cervantes, Miguel de see also Don Quixote Donne, John 248, 250, 260 Chanson de Roland 17, 68, 70, 74, 95, 96, 73 Doolittle, Hilda (H. D.) 217, 227 chansons de geste 70–3, 74, 96 Douglas, Gavin 247, 248, 251 Chapman, George 221, 247, 248, 249, 251 Dryden, John 167, 168, 170, 173–7, 178, Chaucer, Geoffrey 248, 249, 251 181, 183, 186, 187, 188, 190, 206, 251 Ciris 41 see also Mac Flecknoe Clough, Arthur Hugh 252 Dunciad 168, 171, 173, 174, 175, 178–81, see also Bothie of Tober-na-Voulich, The 182, 183, 185, 186, 188, 189, 190, 254 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 186, 193–5, see also Pope, Alexander 196, 213, 261 see also Destiny of Nations; Rime of the Edda 58, 59–62, 69, 256 Ancient Mariner, The Einhard 55, 72 Colluthus 29, 32 Eliot, T. S. 167, 169, 180, 181, 187–90, Convivio 85, 87 212, 214–18, 219, 227, 229, see also Dante 231, 253 Corippus 32 see also Waste Land, The Cowley, Abraham 147, 172, 173, 175 Ennius, Quintus 15, 31, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, see also Davideis 39, 43, 51, 52 Cowper, William 251, 260 Epigoni 21 see also Task, The epyllia 32, 41 Curse of Kehama, The 197, 198, 199 Erasmus, Desiderius 98, 107, 110, 111, 170 see also Southey, Robert Essay on Epic Poetry 196 Cypria 20–1 see also Hayley, William Essay on Man 168 Dante 21, 27, 77–91, 94, 97, 103, 104, 108, see also Pope, Alexander 110, 111, 112, 115, 182, 188, 193, 195, Euripides 28, 46, 48 198, 199, 208, 221, 234, 237, 242, 246, Excursion, The 202–3, 207, 208 251, 254, 255, 258 see also Wordsworth, William see also Convivio; Divine Comedy, The Davenant, William 175 Fanshaw, Richard 125–6 see also Gondibert Faerie Queene, The 133–45, 193, 248, Davideis 174 249, 257 see also Cowley, Abraham see also Spenser, Edmund Democritus 86 Ferdowsi 58 Destiny of Nations 194–5 Fielding, Henry 168, 169, 180 see also Coleridge, Samuel Taylor see also Jonathan Wild Dietrich Cycle 57 Finnegans Wake 214, 258 Dionysiaca 29–30 see also Joyce, James see also Nonnus of Panopolis Fitzgerald, Robert 254

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Garth, Samuel 168, 172, 173 Jarry, Alfred 177, 190 see also Dispensary, The Jerusalem 205–6 Geoffrey of Monmouth 140 see also Blake, William Georgics 31, 33, 40 Joan of Arc 194, 196, 197 see also Virgil see also Southey, Robert Gerusalemme Liberata 93, 95, 96, 111–17, Johnson, Samuel 179–80, 188 119, 120 see also Vanity of Human Wishes, The see also Tasso, Torquato Jonathan Wild 168, 180 Gilgamesh, Epic of 1–12, 14, 261 see also Fielding, Henry Gnaeus Naevius 36–7, 38, 39, 43, 52 Jonson, Ben 250 Godwin, William 197 Joyce, James 180, 214, 217–18, 227, 234, Goethe, Johann Wolfgang de 119, 261 246, 253 Golding, Arthur 247, 248, 249 see also Finnegans Wake; Ulysses Gondibert 175 Juliana 66 see also Davenant, William Juvenal 175, 176, 179, 180 Graves, Robert 250, 253 Gray, Stephen 129, 130 Keats, John 125, 169, 199, 207–9, 248, 261 Harington, John 247, 250 see also Hyperion Harrison, Tony 253 Hayley, William 182–3, 196 Laon and Cythna 197–8 see also Triumphs of Temper, The; Essay see also Shelley, Percy Bysshe on Epic Poetry Lara 185 Heaney, Seamus 253 see also Shelley, Percy Bysshe Heliodorus 259 Lawrence, T. E. 253 Hero and Leander 248, 249 Lay of Atli 60–1 see also Marlowe, Christopher; Musaeus Lay of Finnsburgh 59, 63 Herodotus 14, 15 Lay of Ingeld 55, 63 Hesiod 16, 33, 248, 260 Layard, Austen Henry 1, 261 Hildebrandslied 56–8, 59, 60, 61 Leaves of Grass 258 Homer 13–14, 15, 20, 22, 35–6, 37, 76, 78, see also Whitman, Walt 81, 82, 86, 87, 97, 122, 125, 133, 134, Lewis, Wyndham 220, 225 135, 136, 148, 156, 158, 168, 169, Livius Andronicus, Lucius 15, 32 170, 172, 173, 176, 184–5, 189, 190, Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth 126, 258 193, 195, 211, 212, 220, 221, 226, 234, Lord, Albert B. 66, 68, 247 235, 236, 240, 242, 244, 245, 247, 248, Lucan 33, 38, 42, 49, 51–2, 100, 112, 147, 251–2, 253, 259, 260 250, 253 see also Iliad; Odyssey see also Bellum Civile Horace 22, 171, 175, 176, 260 Lucretius 31, 35, 84, 96–7, 102, 112, 113, Hughes, Ted 249, 257 115, 117, 162, 168, 260 Hutchinson, Lucy 146, 162–5 Luka´cs, Georg 76–7, 78, 79, 80, 201–2 see also Order and Disorder Lusı´adas, Os 119–30 Hyperion (The Fall of Hyperion; Hyperion: see also Camo˜ es, Luis Vaz de A Fragment) 167, 186, 196, 207–9 Luther, Martin 98, 107, 109, 110, 111, see also Keats, John 114, 251 Lutrin, Le 168, 171–2, 173–4, 176, Iliad 13–14, 15, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22–5, 26, 29, 178, 179, 182, 187 31, 32, 33, 34, 45, 46, 64, 81, 103, 122, see also Boileau, Nicolas 134, 167, 184, 185, 234, 235, 246, 247, 248, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, Mac Flecknoe 174–5, 177, 181, 187 254, 255, 258 see also Dryden, John see also Homer Machiavelli, Niccolo` 95, 106 Ionesco, Euge`ne 190 MacNeice, Louis 187, 254

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Madoc 197 Order and Disorder 146, 162–5 see also Southey, Robert see also Hutchinson, Lucy Mahabharata 246, 254, 259–60 Orlando Furioso 93, 95, 96, 105–11, 112, Manfred 199 149, 247, 250 see also Byron, Lord see also Ariosto, Ludovico Manilius, Marcus 31 Orlando Innamorato 93, 95, 96, Margites 21, 31 99–105, 112 Marino, Giambattista 98, 117 see also Boiardo, Matteo Maria Marlowe, Christopher 247, 248, 250 Ovid 36, 39, 41, 46, 51, 52, 90, 172, 190, see also Hero and Leander 248, 249, 260 Marvell, Andrew 161, 163 see also Metamorphoses Masefield, John 223 Melville, Herman 121, 126, 234, 261 Paradise Lost 81, 119, 126, 146–57, Metamorphoses 39, 41, 46, 51, 52–3, 247, 163, 164, 167, 168, 169, 171, 248–9, 250, 256, 257, 260 181, 183, 195, 198, 199, 200, see also Ovid 202, 203, 204, 213, 216, 242, Mickle, William Julius 126–8 257, 262 Milton, John 117, 146–62, 167, 168, 169–70, see also Milton, John 170–1, 172, 173, 174, 175, 179, 183, Paradise Regained 146, 155, 157–62 185, 186, 188–9, 193, 194, 195, 196, see also Milton, John 198, 199, 200, 201, 202–6, 207, 208, Parry, Milman 32, 66, 68, 247 213, 242, 246, 252, 257, 260 Pater, Walter 186, 214–15 see also Paradise Lost; Paradise Regained; Peter Bell the Third 183–4, 185 Samson Agonistes see also Shelley, Percy Bysshe mock epic 21–2, 31, 94, 167–90 Petrarch 94, 96, 103, 121 Morgan, Edwin 253 Petronius 22, 35, 43, 48 Morgan, William 251 see also Satyrica Morgante 94, 99 Phaedo 86 see also Pulci, Luigi see also Plato Morris, William 253 Phaer, Thomas 247 Moschus 41 Pharsalia, see Bellum Civile Musaeus 248 Pico della Mirandola 103, 106–7, 114 see also Hero and Leander Pindar 28, 172 Plato 79, 83, 87, 135, 260 Newman, William 251–2 see also Phaedo; Republic, The Nibelungenlied 17, 22, 57, 58, 60, 69–70, Plautus 34 72, 73, 256 Plotinus 81–2, 83, 86, 87, 88 Nicholas of Cusa 97, 98, 99, 104, 110, 114, 117 Plutarch 119 Nonnus of Panopolis 29–30, 32, 52 Poe, Edgar Allan 186, 216, 262 see also Dionysiaca Poetics 21, 96, 97 novel 25, 34, 43, 48, 76–7, 78–9, 137, 170, see also Aristotle 180, 182, 217, 246, 254, 259 Pope, Alexander 168, 169, 170, 172, 173, 175, 176, 178–81, Odyssey 13–14, 15, 17, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25–8, 29, 182, 183, 184–5, 186, 187, 32, 34, 48, 49, 51, 64, 81, 85, 86, 88, 122, 188–9, 190, 206, 250, 251, 252, 134, 190, 211, 217, 221, 222, 234, 235, 254, 260 246, 247, 248, 249, 251, 253–4, 255, 258 see also Dunciad; Essay on Man; Rape see also Homer of the Lock, The Omeros 167, 234–45, 262 Porphyry 86, 87 see also Walcott, Derek Pound, Ezra 169, 176, 185, 189, oral epic 4, 10, 11, 13, 32–4, 39, 55, 56, 57, 211–12, 216, 217, 218–32, 66–7, 68, 70, 72–3, 74, 246, 247, 251, 253, 255 252, 254, 256, 259 see also Cantos

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Prelude, The 167, 168, 186, 194, 196, Statius 21, 35, 36, 39, 52, 108, 109, 254 203–4, 206, 207, 212–14, 219, 260 see also Thebaid see also Wordsworth, William Sterne, Laurence 185 Prometheus Unbound 185, 199–202 see also Tristram Shandy see also Shelley, Percy Bysshe Surrey, Earl of 247 Prudentius 32 Swift, Jonathan 168, 172, 173, 185, 189 Pseudo-Dionysius 114 see also Battle of the Books, The; Pulci, Luigi 94, 96 Tale of a Tub, A see also Morgante Pythagoras 42, 51, 87, 260 Tacitus 55 Tale of a Tub, A 185 Quintilian 31 see also Swift, Jonathan Quintus of Smyrna 29, 32 Task, The 260 see also Cowper, William Ramayana 254 Tasso, Torquato 93, 94, 95, 96–7, 98, 99, Rape of the Lock, The 171, 173, 176, 181, 106, 107, 111–17, 119, 120, 123, 182, 186, 189 130, 136, 140, 150, 204 see also Pope, Alexander see also Discourses on the Heroic Poem; Republic, The 79, 260 Gerusalemme Liberata see also Plato Tassoni, Alessandro 174, 176, 182, 183 Rieu, E. V. 253–4 Teares of the Muses, The 145 Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The 195 see also Spenser, Edmund see also Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Tennyson, Alfred, Lord 252, 257 Terence 34 Samson Agonistes 158, 161 Teseida 94, 96 see also Milton, John see also Boccaccio, Giovanni Satyrica 22, 35, 46, 48–50 Thalaba the Destroyer 197, 198–9 see also Petronius see also Southey, Robert Scarron, Paul 177 Thebaid 21, 33, 34, 44–5, 52–3 Schiller, Friedrich 195 see also Statius Scribleriad 182, 183, 185 Thidrekssaga 57, 58 see also Cambridge, Richard Owen Thomas, Dylan 254 Seneca 28, 34, 46, 48 Tristram Shandy 185–6 Shakespeare, William 181, 185, 189–90, 243, see also Sterne, Laurence 248, 249, 250, 259 Triumphs of Temper, The 182–3, 185 Shelley, Percy Bysshe 183, 184–5, 190, 193, see also Hayley, William 197–8, 199–202, 206, 223, 261 Tryphiodorus 29, 32 see also Laon and Cythna; Lara; Peter Bell Tyndale, William 251 the Third; Prometheus Unbound Shepheardes Calender, The 138, 142 Ulysses 167, 186, 190, 217–18, 220, 222, see also Spenser, Edmund 227, 234, 253 Sidney, Sir Philip 148, 257 see also Joyce, James Silius Italicus 31, 38–9, 52 Upanishads 215 Sohrab and Rustum 252 see also Arnold, Matthew Valerius Flaccus, Gaius 28, 36, 39, Sophocles 21 46, 48, 50 Southey, Robert 193, 194, 196–7, see also Argonautica 198–9, 200 Valla, Lorenzo 97–8, 99, 103, 107, 110, see also Curse of Kehama, The; Joan of 114, 115 Arc; Madoc; Thalaba the Destroyer Vanity of Human Wishes, The Spenser, Edmund 133–45, 148, 197, 198 179–80, 188 see also Faerie Queene, The; Shepheardes see also Johnson, Samuel Calender, The; Teares of the Muses, The Vega, Lope de 119, 121

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Virgil 15–16, 19, 27, 28, 29, 35–6, Waste Land, The 167, 175, 181, 185, 186, 37–8, 39, 41, 43, 51, 52, 66, 76, 187–90, 212, 214–17, 218, 219, 220, 77–8, 88, 97, 102, 108, 111, 112, 222, 226, 253, 262 113, 119, 122, 133, 135, 136, see also Eliot, T. S. 140–1, 142, 144, 147, 148, 149, Webster, John 248 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 174, 176, Whitman, Walt 258, 260 178, 179, 189, 190, 195, 205, 242, see also Leaves of Grass 247, 248, 251, 255 Woolf, Virginia 214 see also Aeneid; Georgics Wordsworth, William 169, 186, 193, 194, Voltaire 119, 123, 177, 178 200, 202–4, 207, 208, 212–14, 219, 252, 258 Walcott, Derek 234–45 see also Excursion, The; Prelude, The see also Omeros Waltharius 69 Yeats, W. B. 87, 176, 181, 187, 214, 227

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