Epic: Britain's Heroic Muse 1790-1910

by Herbert F. Tucker

This book is the first to provide a connected history of epic poetry in Britain between the French Revolution and the First World War. Although epic is widely held to have been shouldered aside by the novel, if not invalidated in advance by modernity, in fact the genre was practiced without interruption across the long nineteenth century by nearly every prominent Romantic and Victorian poet, and shoals of ambitious poetasters into the bargain. Poets...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199232989
• ISBN13: 9780199232987
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 752 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 9.3" x 5.7"