Epic: Britain's Heroic Muse 1790-1910
- ISBN-10
- 0199232997
- ISBN-13
- 9780199232994
- Series
- Epic
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 752
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-11-29
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Author
- Herbert F. Tucker
Description
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.
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