Epic Romance: Homer to Milton [Hardcover]

Colin Burrow (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0198117949 | ISBN-13: 978-0198117940 | Publication Date: December 2, 1993

This study presents a comprehensive view of the epic tradition from Homer through Virgil, Ariosto, Tasso, Spenser, and the host of minor writers who helped create the idiom within which these writers worked, to the great achievements of Milton. Detailed studies of individual authors in historical context link to develop a powerful explanation of how and why the epic changed from Homer to Milton.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"In this first-rate study, Burrow unites intelligence, clarity, wide reading in criticism, originality in viewing parallel situations exemplifying sympathy or pity, and humor."--Choice

"...it is a wonderful book--beautifully written, bold in thought, learned, stimulating, concerned with what is deeply and enduringly human. The "history of sympathy" that it relates rewrites the history of "epic romance," and it succeeds not only in sympathetically joining opposed generic terms, but also in bridging generations of readers and writers."--International Journal of the Classical Tradition

About the Author

Colin Burrow is at University of Cambridge.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 336 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (December 2, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0198117949
• ISBN-13: 978-0198117940
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,598,996 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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