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MOCK-EPIC POETRY FROM POPE TO HEINE
MOCK-EPIC POETRY FROM POPE TO HEINE
Book Category:
Poetry > General
Author:
Robertson, Ritchie
Binding:
Hardcover
ISBN 13:
9780199571581
Price:
USD 110.00
Publication Year:
2009

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Kimberly Craven,

Oxford University Press,
198 Madison Ave.,
New York ,
New York - 10016-4314,
USA
Web: www.oup.com

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Book Description

This is a study of mock-epic poetry in English, French, and German from the 1720s to the 1840s. While mock-heroic poetry is a parodistic counterpart to serious epic, mock-epic poetry starts by parodying epic but moves on to much wider and richer literary explorations.

 

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