PREFACE

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The Epic: an Essay

London mcmxxii

First published 1914.

New Edition, reset 1922.

By the same Author:

• Towards a Theory of Art
• Speculative Dialogues
• Four Short Plays
• Thomas Hardy: A Critical Study
• Principles of English Prosody

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Table of Contents

PREFACE

I. BEGINNINGS

II. LITERARY EPIC

III. THE NATURE OF EPIC

IV. THE EPIC SERIES

V. AFTER MILTON

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