Published by Good Press, 2019

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Table of Contents

       INTRODUCTION

       ILLUSTRATIONS

       FOREWORD

       THE BOOK OF THE EPIC

       GREEK EPICS

       THE ILIAD

       THE ODYSSEY

       LATIN EPICS

       THE AENEID

       FRENCH EPICS

       THE SONG OF ROLAND[8]

       AUCASSIN AND NICOLETTE

       SPANISH EPICS

       THE CID

       PORTUGUESE EPICS

       THE LUSIAD

       ITALIAN EPICS

       DIVINE COMEDY

       PURGATORY

       PARADISE

       THE ORLANDOS

       GERUSALEMME LIBERATA, OR JERUSALEM DELIVERED

       EPICS OF THE BRITISH ISLES

       BEOWULF[21]

       THE ARTHURIAN CYCLE

       ROBIN HOOD

       THE FAERIE QUEENE

       PARADISE LOST

       PARADISE REGAINED

       GERMAN EPICS

       THE NIBELUNGENLIED[29]

       STORY OF THE HOLY GRAIL

       EPICS OF THE NETHERLANDS

       SCANDINAVIAN EPICS

       THE VOLSUNGA SAGA[34]

       RUSSIAN AND FINNISH EPICS

       THE KALEVALA, OR THE LAND OF HEROES

       THE EPICS OF CENTRAL EUROPE AND OF THE BALKAN PENINSULA

       HEBREW AND EARLY CHRISTIAN EPICS

       ARABIAN AND PERSIAN EPICS

       THE SHAH-NAMEH, OR EPIC OF KINGS

       INDIAN EPICS

       THE RAMAYANA

       THE MAHABHARATA

       THE STORY OF THE DELUGE

       THE STORY OF NALA AND DAMAYANTI

       THE STORY OF SAVITRI AND SATYAVAN

       CHINESE AND JAPANESE POETRY

       AMERICAN EPICS

       INDEX OF NAMES

INTRODUCTION

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      Every now and then in our reading we come suddenly face to face with first things—the very elemental sources beyond which no man may go. There is a distinct satisfaction in dealing with such beginnings, and, when they are those of literature, the sense of freshness is nothing short of inspiring. To share the same lofty outlook, to breathe the same high