Publisher's Synopsis
This work provides an overview of the genre of 'epic' poetry and its evolution from Homer to Milton, combined with a close analysis of the texts of perhaps six of the most well-known and studied examples: the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Aenied, Orlando Furioso, the Fairie Queene and Paradise Lost. Written in an accessible style it not only provides an essential context in which the works of the later English poets should be read, but also presents a fresh individual analysis of these familiar works.
