England primarily 12th through 15th centuries Legends of King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table The legends of King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table have been the favorites of poets, painters, and politicians for centuries. Perhaps this is because...
England Published: 1590; 1596 Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene Spenser’s The Faerie Queene can be studied, in its local Elizabethan context, as an exemplar of Philip Sidney’s claim that the purpose of poesy is to “teach and delight” and, in its more global...
England Published: 1667 in 10 books, 1674 in 12 books John Milton Paradise Lost Paradise Lost emerged from the crucible of England’s Civil Wars, Interregnum, and Restoration, as well as the author’s life. John Milton (1608–74) had been...
England First published in 1671 John Milton, Paradise Regained Paradise Regained (1671) is a brief epic of 2,070 blank verse lines that John Milton (1608–74) published just four years after the first publication of his epic Paradise Lost (1667 in 10 books; 1674 in 12...
Belarus 1820s The Aeneid Turned Inside Out (Eneida navyvarat) Eneida navyvarat [The Aeneid Turned Inside Out] is a Belarusian burlesque poem dating from the 1820s. Its plot is based on Virgil’s Aeneid, an epic written between 29 and 19 BC. Eneida navyvarat continues...
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