Epic and Romance

Epic and Romance

William Paton Ker, scottish literary scholar and essayist (1855-1923)


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Table of Contents

-01- About this book

-02- PREFACE

-03- POSTSCRIPT

-04- INTRODUCTION

-05- CHAPTER I. THE HEROIC AGE

-06- CHAPTER II. EPIC AND ROMANCE

-07- CHAPTER III. ROMANTIC MYTHOLOGY

-08- CHAPTER IV. THE THREE SCHOOLS

-09- THE TEUTONIC EPIC

-10- CHAPTER I. THE TRAGIC CONCEPTION

-11- CHAPTER II. SCALE OF THE POEMS

-12- CHAPTER III. EPIC AND BALLAD POETRY

-13- SIVARD

-14- CHAPTER IV. THE STYLE OF THE POEMS

-15- CHAPTER V. THE PROGRESS OF EPIC

-16- CHAPTER VI. BEOWULF

-17- THE ICELANDIC SAGAS

-18- CHAPTER I. ICELAND AND THE HEROIC AGE

-19- CHAPTER II. MATTER AND FORM

-20- CHAPTER III. THE HEROIC IDEAL

-21- CHAPTER IV. TRAGIC IMAGINATION

-22- CHAPTER V. COMEDY

-23- CHAPTER VI. THE ART OF NARRATIVE

-24- CHAPTER VII. EPIC AND HISTORY

-25- CHAPTER VIII. THE NORTHERN PROSE ROMANCES

-26- THE OLD FRENCH EPIC

-27- ROMANCE AND THE OLD FRENCH ROMANTIC SCHOOLS

-28- APPENDIX