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