ISBN details
- ISBN 10: 0199232989
- ISBN 13: 9780199232987
Overview
Literary History Has Conventionally Viewed Milton As The Last Real Practitioner Of The Epic In English Verse. Herbert Tucker's Spirited Book Shows That The British Tradition Of Epic Poetry Was Unbroken From The French Revolution To World War I. The Very Idea: Epic In The Head -- On Calliope's Jalopy: Epic Rebuilt 1790-1800 -- Under Correction: Epic Conscripted 1800-1805 -- In Expiation: Epic Atonement 1805-1815 -- In Style: Epic Plush 1815-1820 -- To The Ending Doom: Epic Apocalypse 1820-1830 -- In Session : Forensic Epic 1830-1840 -- There And Back: Emigrant Epic 1840-1850 -- On Impulse: Spasmodic Epic 1850-1860 -- In Plight Of Troth: Mythological Epic 1860-1870 -- For All The World : Eclectic Epic 1870-1895 -- At Long Last: Edwardian Epic 1895-1910. Herbert F. Tucker. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [602]-668) And Index.Other Details
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Language: Eng English
- Format: print
- Edition: 1
- Dimensions: viii, 737 p. ; 24 cm.
- Pages: 752
- Date Published: 2008
- Authors: Tucker, Herbert F.