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Maurice Bowra.
Heroic Poetry.
Published London: Macmillan & Co., 1961 reprint (previously issued 1952).
[No ISBN].
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printer: Lowe & Brydone, London.
Size: 144x220x35mm.
Page count: ix,590pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: the dustjacket on this copy is discolured with age, and quite ragged; the book itself has some mild dinks on the boards and spine; some foxing on the page edges and endpapers, otherwise looks ok internally, text appears to be free of marking.

This item £15.00
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(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Ulan Press paperbakck in print at £22.95]
Weight without packaging: 806g.

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No particular medieval emphasis, but includes frequent reference to medieval works, including Beowulf, Chanson de Roland and the Elder Edda.

Contents: The heroic poem; Poetry of action; The hero; The realistic background; Mechanics of narrative; Technique of composition — language  — devices of narrative; Scale & development; Tradition & transmission; The bard; Inside the tradition; Varieties ofheroic outlook; Heroic poetry & history; Decline of heroic poetry.

Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at foot of page
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: as list of abbreviations, 5pp
Index: yes

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