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Metamorphoses
The earthly paradise and the Renaissance epic
Beowulf
Dante and Pound
Oil, taxes, and cats
The Homeric epics
Aeneidos
Dunciad
As witnessed by images
Somewhere I have never travelled
War music
Milton's Paradise Lost
Monstrous regiment
The epic of Gilgamesh
Homer on life and death
Ἰλιάς
The scepter and the spear
Apparition Poems
The Aeneid / Virgil ; translated by Robert Fitzgerald
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
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