Epic Romance: Homer to Milton

Comparative Literature | October 1, 1996| | Copyright

Eric ROMANCE: HOMER TO MILTON. By Colin Burrow. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. x, 325 p.

Colin Burrow investigates epic in a way that moves both beyond the old antithesis of "epic" and "romance" and beyond readings of epic that interpret its literary history as the unfolding of a kind of Bloomian, oedipal competition among epic writers. In his thoughtful introduction, Burrow is fully aware of the pitfalls of any study of the literary history of epic, a task that he admits may be conceptually impossible." Anticipating an attack by what he might perceive as the literary "left,' Burrow ...

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