Midwest Book Review
Milton Spenser And The Epic Tradition is a study of the epic genre and its evolution from Homer to Milton. Patrick Cook demonstrates how the Illiad, the Odyssey, the Aeneid, Orlando Furioso, the Faerie Queene, and Paradise Lost have greatly enhanced their successors. Milton Spenser And The Epic Tradition 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. Milton Spenser And The Epic Tradition is a significant contribution to literary criticism and analysis, and could well stand as an exemplar upon which other studies could well pattern themselves.
