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Metamorphoses
The English epic tradition
Faerie queene
Homer and the epic
The Odyssey
The Narreme in the medieval romance epic
The Odyssey
Allegorical poetics and the epic
The epic songs of Russia
Aeneis
Argonautica
Blood and iron
Aspects of the speech in the later Roman epic
The Epic
Epic reinvented
Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary
The epic quest
Epic romance
He who saw everything
The Odyssey of Homer
Beowulf; a new telling
The heroic age
The epic of Gilgamesh
Homer's the Iliad and the Odyssey
National Epics
Eros, imitation, and the epic tradition
Homer's winged words
Suprasegmentals, meter, and the manuscript of Beowulf
Pope's Dunciad and the Queen of Night
The Odyssey of Homer
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