G U I D E T O F U RT H E R R E A D I N G

General

Beissinger, Margaret, Tylus, Jane, and Wofford, Susanne, eds., Epic Traditions in the
Contemporary World: The Poetics of Community, Berkeley, University of
California Press, 1999
Bowra, C. M., From Virgil to Milton, London, Macmillan, 1945
Heroic Poetry, London, Macmillan, 1952
Foley, J. M., The Theory of Oral Composition: History and Methodology,
Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press, 1988
Greene, Thomas, The Descent from Heaven: A Study in Epic Continuity,
New Haven, Yale University Press, 1963
Hainsworth, J. B., The Idea of Epic, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1991
Hatto, A. T., gen. ed., J. B. Hainsworth, ed., Traditions of Heroic and Epic Poetry,
2 vols., London, The Modern Humanities Research Association, 1980–9
Johns-Putra, Adeline, The History of Epic, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
Koljević, Svetozar, The Epic in the Making, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1980
Lord, Albert B., The Singer of Tales, 2nd edn, ed. S. Mitchell and G. Nagy,
Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2000
Merchant, Paul, The Epic, London, Methuen, 1971
Miller, D. A., The Epic Hero, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000
Nuttall, A. D., Openings: Narrative Beginnings from the Epic to the Novel, Oxford,
Clarendon Press, 1992
Parry, Milman, The Making of Homeric Verse, new edn, Oxford, Oxford University
Press, 1987
Quint, David, Epic and Empire: Politics and Generic Form from Virgil to Milton,
Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1993
Wofford, Susanne, The Choice of Achilles: The Ideology of Figure in the Epic,
Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1992

1 The Epic of Gilgamesh

Damrosch, D., The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of
Gilgamesh, New York, H. Holt, 2007
Foster, B. R., The Epic of Gilgamesh, New York, Norton, 2000
George, A. R., The Epic of Gilgamesh: The Babylonian Epic Poem and Other Texts
in Akkadian and Sumerian, London, Penguin Classics, 1999

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The Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh: Introduction, Critical Edition and Cuneiform

Texts, 2 vols., Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2003
Leik, G., ed., The Babylonian World, London, Routledge, 2007
Tigay, J., The Evolution of the Gilgamesh Epic, Philadelphia, University of
Pennsylvania Press, 1982

2 Greek epic
Cohen, Beth, ed., The Distaff Side: Representing the Female in Homer’s Odyssey,
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1995
Davies, Malcolm, The Epic Cycle, Bristol, Bristol Classical Press, 1989
Doherty, Lillian Eileen, Siren Songs: Gender, Audiences, and Narrators in the
Odyssey, Ann Arbor, MI, University of Michigan Press, 1995
Finley, M. I., The World of Odysseus, 2nd edn, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1979
Foley, John Miles, ed., A Companion to Ancient Epic, Oxford, Blackwell, 2005
Fowler, Robert, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Homer, Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 2004
Griffin, J., Homer on Life and Death, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1980
Homer: The Odyssey, 2nd edn, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004
Katz, Marilyn A., Penelope’s Renown: Meaning and Indeterminacy in the Odyssey,
Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1991
Kim, Jinyo, Achilleus’ Pity: Oral Style and the Unity of the Iliad, Oxford, Rowan
and Littlefield Publishers, 1997
Louden, Bruce, The Odyssey: Structure, Narration, Meaning, Baltimore, Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1999
Morris, I., and Powell, B., eds., A New Companion to Homer, Leiden, E. J. Brill,
1997
Murray, Gilbert, The Rise of the Greek Epic, 4th edn, London, Oxford University
Press, 1934
Page, D. L., The Homeric Odyssey, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1955
Folktales in Homer’s Odyssey, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1973
Parry, Milman, The Making of Homeric Verse, ed. Adam Parry, Oxford, Oxford
University Press, 1971
Pucci, Pietro, Odysseus Polutropos: Intertextual Readings in the Odyssey and the
Iliad, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1995
The Song of the Sirens: Essays on Homer, Lanham, MD, Rowan and Littlefield
Publishers, 1998
Schein, S. L., The Mortal Hero: An Introduction to Homer’s Iliad, Berkeley,
University of California Press, 1996
Reading the Odyssey: Selected Interpretive Essays, Princeton, Princeton
University Press, 1996
Silk, Michael, The Iliad, 2nd edn, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004
Stanford, W. B., The Ulysses Theme: A Study in the Adaptability of a Traditional
Hero, rev. edn, Oxford, Blackwell, 1992
Suzuki, Mihoko, Metamorphoses of Helen: Authority, Difference and the Epic,
Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1989
Thalmann, W. G., The Odyssey: An Epic of Return, New York, Twayne Publishers,
1992

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The Swineherd and the Bow: Representations of Class in the Odyssey, Ithaca,
Cornell University Press, 1998
Willcock, Malcolm, A Companion to the Iliad, Chicago, University of Chicago
Press, 1976
Wright, G. M., and Jones, P. V., eds., Homer: German Scholarship in Translation,
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1997
de Yong, I. J. J., ed., Homer: Critical Assessments, 4 vols., London, Routledge, 1999

3 Roman epic
Bertolı́n-Cebrián, Reyes, Singing the Dead: A Model for Epic Evolution, New York,
Peter Lang, 2006
Comic Epic and Parodies of Epic: Literature for Children and Youth in Ancient
Greece, Spudasmata, Georg Olms, 2009
Boyle, A. J., Roman Tragedy, London, Routledge, 2006
Conte, Gian Biagio, The Poetry of Pathos: Studies in Virgilian Epic, trans. Elaine
Fantham and Glenn Most, ed. Stephen Harrison, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 2007
Crump, M. Marjorie, The Epyllion: From Theocritus to Ovid, Oxford, Blackwell,
1931
Fantham, Elaine, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004
Feeney, D. C., The Gods in Epic: Poets and Critics of the Classical Tradition,
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1991
Ganiban, Randall T., Statius and Virgil: The ‘Thebaid’ and the Re-interpretation of
the ‘Aeneid’, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007
Hardie, Philip, The Epic Successors of Virgil: A Study in the Dynamics of a
Tradition, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1993
Harris, W. V., Restraining Rage: The Ideology of Anger Control in Classical
Antiquity, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2001
Henderson, John, Fighting for Rome: Poets and Caesars, History and Civil War,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998
Hershkowitz Debra, The Madness of Epic: Reading Insanity from Homer to Statius,
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1998
Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica: Abbreviated Voyages in Silver Latin Epic, Oxford,
Clarendon Press, 1998
Keith, A. M., Engendering Epic: Women in Latin Epic, Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 2000
Martindale, Charles, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Virgil, Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 1997
Masters, Jamie, Poetry and Civil War in Lucan’s ‘Bellum Civile’, Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 1992
Miles, Gary B., Virgil’s ‘Georgics’: A New Interpretation, Berkeley, University of
California Press, 1980
Miller, John F., Ovid’s Elegiac Festivals: Studies in the ‘Fasti’, Frankfurt am Main,
Peter Lang, 1991
Nagy, Gregory, The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek
Poetry, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979
O’Hara, James, True Names: Vergil and the Alexandrian Tradition of Etymological
Wordplay, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1996

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O’Loughlin, Michael, The Garlands of Repose: The Literary Celebration of Civic

and Retired Leisure: The Traditions of Homer and Vergil, Horace and
Montaigne, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1978
Otis, Brooks, Virgil: A Study in Civilized Poetry, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1964
Perkell, Christine G., The Poet’s Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil’s ‘Georgics’,
Berkeley, University of California Press, 1989
Putnam, Michael C. J., The Poetry of the ‘Aeneid’: Four Studies in Imaginative Unity
and Design, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1965
Virgil’s Poem of the Earth: Studies in the ‘Georgics’, Princeton, Princeton
University Press, 1979
Quinn, Kenneth, Virgil’s ‘Aeneid’: A Critical Description, London, Routledge and
Kegan Paul, 1968
Ross, David O., Virgil’s Elements: Physics and Poetry in the ‘Georgics’, Princeton,
Princeton University Press, 1987
Sullivan, J. P., The ‘Satyricon’ of Petronius: A Literary Study, London, Faber and
Faber, 1968
Thomas, Richard F., ed., Virgil: Georgics, 2 vols., Cambridge, Cambridge University
Press, 1988
Toohey, Peter, Reading Epic: An Introduction to the Ancient Narratives, London,
Routledge, 1992
Epic Lessons: An Introduction to Ancient Didactic Poetry, London, Routledge,
1996
Vessey, David, Statius and the Thebaid, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1973
Wilkinson, L. P., Ovid Recalled, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1955
The Georgics of Virgil: A Critical Survey, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
1969
Williams, Gordon, Technique and Ideas in the ‘Aeneid’, New Haven, Yale University
Press, 1983

4 Heroic epic poetry in the Middle Ages

Bjork, R. E., and J. D. Niles, eds., A Beowulf Handbook, Lincoln, NE, University of
Nebraska Press, 1996
Bostock, J. Knight, A Handbook on Old High German Literature, Oxford,
Clarendon Press, 1955
Brault, G. J., ed. and trans., The Song of Roland: An Analytical Edition, 2 vols.,
University Park, PA, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1978
Brodeur, A. G., The Art of Beowulf, Berkeley, CA, University of California Press,
1959
Chickering, Howell D., Jr., ed. and trans., Beowulf, New York, Doubleday, 1977
De Chasca, E., The Poem of the Cid, Twayne’s World Authors Series, 378, Boston,
Twayne, 1976
Dronke, U., ed. and trans., The Poetic Edda. I. Heroic Poems, Oxford, Clarendon
Press, 1969
Duggan, J. J., The ‘Cantar de mio Cid’: Poetic Creation in its Economic and Social
Contexts, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1989
Fenik, B., Homer and the Nibelungenlied: Comparative Studies in Epic Style,
Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1986

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Foley, J. M. Traditional Oral Epic: The ‘Odyssey’, ‘Beowulf’, and the Serbo-Croatian
Return Song, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1990
Fulk, R. D., Bjork, R. E., and Niles, J. D., eds., Klaeber’s Beowulf and the Fight at
Finnsburg, with a foreword by H. Damico, 4th edn, Toronto, University of
Toronto Press, 2008
Harris, J., ‘Eddic Poetry’, in Old Norse – Icelandic Literature: A Critical Guide, ed.
C. J. Clover and J. Lindow, Islandica, 45, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1985,
68–156
Hatto, A. T., trans., The Nibelungenlied, rev. edn, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1969
Joy, E. A., and Ramsey, M. K., eds., The Postmodern ‘Beowulf’: A Critical
Casebook, Morgantown, VA, West Virginia University Press, 2006
Kay, S., The Chansons de Geste in the Age of Romance: Political Fictions, Oxford,
Clarendon Press, 1995
Michael, I., ed., Hamilton, R., and Perry, J. trans., The Poem of the Cid,
Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1984
Momma, H., The Compositon of Old English Poetry, Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 1997
Niles, J. D., Beowulf: The Poem and its Tradition, Cambridge, MA, Harvard
University Press, 1983
Reichl, K. Singing the Past: Turkic and Medieval Heroic Poetry, Ithaca, Cornell
University Press, 2000

5 Dante and the epic of transcendence

Auerbach, Erich, Dante, Poet of the Secular World, trans. Ralph Mannheim,
Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1961
Bloom, Harold, ed., Odysseus/Ulysses, New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1991
Curtius, E. R., European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages, New York,
Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1953
Freccero, John, Dante: The Poetics of Conversion, ed. Rachel Jacoff, Cambridge,
MA, Harvard University Press, 1986
Freccero, John, ed., Dante: A Collection of Critical Essays, Englewood Cliffs, NJ,
Prentice Hall, 1965
Lamberton, Robert, Homer the Theologian: Neoplatonist Allegorical Reading and
the Growth of the Epic Tradition, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1986
Singleton, Charles S., Journey to Beatrice, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University
Press, 1958
Thompson, David, Dante’s Epic Journeys, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University
Press, 1974
Wetherbee, Winthrop, The Ancient Flame: Dante and the Poets, Notre Dame, IN,
University of Notre Dame Press, 2008

6 Italian Renaissance epic

Ascoli, Albert, Ariosto’s Bitter Harmony: Crisis and Evasion in the Italian
Renaissance, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1987
Brand, C. P., Torquato Tasso: A Study of the Poet and his Contribution to English
Literature, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1965

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Cavallo, Jo Ann, Boiardo’s ‘Orlando Innamorato’: An Ethics of Desire, London,

Associated University Presses, 1993
The Romance Epics of Boiardo, Arisoto and Tasso: From Public Duty to Private
Pleasure, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2004
Everson, Jane E., The Italian Romance Epic in the Age of Humanism, Oxford,
Oxford University Press, 2001
Marinelli, Peter V., Ariosto and Boiardo: The Origins of ‘Orlando Furioso’,
Columbia, University of Missouri Press, 1987
Murrin, Michael, The Allegorical Epic: Essays in its Rise and Decline, Chicago,
University of Chicago Press, 1980
Quint, David, Epic and Empire: Politics and Generic Form from Virgil to Milton,
Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1993
Zatti, Sergio, The Quest for Epic, trans. Sally Hill and Dennis Looney, Toronto,
University of Toronto Press, 2006

7 Camões’s ‘Os Lusı́adas’: the first modern epic

Bacon, Leonard, trans., The Lusiads, New York: Hispanic Society of America, 1950
Bell, Aubrey F. G., Luis de Camões, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1923
Hart, Henry Hersch, Luis de Camoens and the Epic of the Lusiads, Norman,
University of Oklahoma Press, 1962
Monteiro, George, The Presence of Camões: Influences on the Literature of
England, America, and Southern Africa, Lexington, University Press of
Kentucky, 1996
Pierce, Frank, ed., Os Lusı́adas, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1973
Subrahmanyam, Sanjay, The Career and Legend of Vasco da Gama, Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 1997
Taylor, L. C., ed., Luı́s de Camões: Epic and Lyric, trans. Keith Bosley, Manchester,
Carcanet, 1990
White, Landeg, trans., The Lusiads, Oxford and New York, Oxford University
Press, 1997
Woodberry, George Edward, The Inspiration of Poetry, New York, Macmillan, 1910

8 ‘ The Faerie Queene’: Britain’s national monument

Bellamy, Elizabeth J., Translations of Power: Narcissism and the Unconscious in
Epic History, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1992
Berger, Harry, Jr., Revisionary Play: Studies in the Spenserian Dynamics, Berkeley,
University of California Press, 1988
Biow, Douglas, Mirabile Dictu: Representations of the Marvelous in Medieval and
Renaissance Epic, Ann Arbor, MI, University of Michigan Press, 1996
Borris, Kenneth, Allegory and Epic in English Renaissance Literature: Heroic Form
in Sidney, Spenser, and Milton, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000
Burrow, Colin, Epic Romance: Homer to Milton, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1993
Cook, Patrick J., Milton, Spenser and the Epic Tradition, Aldershot, Ashgate, 1996
Fichter, Andrew, Poets Historical: Dynastic Epic in the Renaissance, New Haven,
Yale University Press, 1982

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Goldberg, Jonathan, Endlesse Worke: Spenser and the Structures of Discourse,

Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981
Helgerson, Richard, Forms of Nationhood: The Elizabethan Writing of England,
Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1992
Kaske, Carol K., Spenser and Biblical Poetics, Ithaca, Cornell University Press,
1999
Murrin, Michael, The Allegorical Epic: Essays in its Rise and Decline, Chicago,
University of Chicago Press, 1980
Nohrnberg, James, The Analogy of ‘The Faerie Queene’, Princeton, Princeton
University Press, 1976
Warner, Christopher J., The Augustinian Epic, Petrarch to Milton, Ann Arbor, MI,
University of Michigan Press, 2005
Watkins, John, The Specter of Dido: Spenser and Virgilian Epic, New Haven, Yale
University Press, 1995
Wofford, Susanne, The Choice of Achilles: The Ideology of Figure in the Epic,
Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1992

9 Seventeenth-century Protestant English epic

Achinstein, Sharon, Milton and the Revolutionary Reader, Princeton, Princeton

University Press, 1994
Literature and Dissent in Milton’s England, Cambridge, Cambridge University
Press, 2003
Bennett, Joan S., Reviving Liberty: Radical Christian Humanism in Milton’s Great
Poems, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1989
Corns, Thomas N., Regaining ‘Paradise Lost’, London, Longman, 1994
Davies, Stevie, Images of Kingship in ‘Paradise Lost’: Milton’s Politics and Christian
Liberty, Columbia, MS, University of Missouri Press, 1983
Fallon, Robert T. Divided Empire: Milton’s Political Imagery, University Park,
Pennsylvania University Press, 1995
Gregerson, Linda, The Reformation of the Subject: Spenser, Milton, and the English
Protestant Epic, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1995
Hill, Christopher, The Experience of Defeat: Milton and Some Contemporaries,
New York, Viking Penguin, 1984
Knoppers, Laura L. Historicizing Milton: Spectacle, Power, and Poetry in
Restoration England, Athens, GA, University of Georgia Press, 1994
Lewalski, Barbara K., Milton’s Brief Epic: The Genre, Meaning, and Art of ‘Paradise
Regained’, Providence, Brown University Press, 1966
‘Paradise Lost’ and the Rhetoric of Literary Forms, Princeton, Princeton
University Press, 1986
Lim, Walter S. H. John Milton, Radical Politics, and Biblical Republicanism,
Newark, University of Delaware Press, 2006
Loewenstein, David, Representing Revolution in Milton and his Contemporaries:
Religion, Politics, and Polemics in Radical Puritanism, Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 2001
Milton: Paradise Lost, 2nd edn, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004
Miller, Shannon, Engendering the Fall: John Milton and Seventeenth-Century
Women Writers, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008

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Norbrook, David, Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric, and Politics,
1627–1660, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999
Quint, David, Epic and Empire: Politics and Generic Form from Virgil to Milton,
Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1993
Radzinowicz, Mary Ann, Toward ‘Samson Agonistes’: The Growth of Milton’s
Mind, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1978
Turner, James Grantham, One Flesh: Paradisal Marriage and Sexual Relations in the
Age of Milton, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1987
Webber, Joan W., Milton and his Epic Tradition, Seattle, University of Washington
Press, 1979
Wilding, Michael, Dragons Teeth: Literature in the English Revolution, Oxford,
Clarendon Press, 1987

10 Mock-heroic and English poetry

Bond, Richmond P., English Burlesque Poetry 1700–1750, Cambridge, MA,
Harvard University Press, 1932
Broich, Ulrich, The Eighteenth-Century Mock-Heroic Poem, trs. D. H. Wilson,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990
Brower, R. A., Alexander Pope: The Poetry of Allusion, Oxford, Clarendon Press,
1959
Clark, A. F. B., Boileau and the French Classical Critics in England (1660–1830),
Paris, Champion, 1925
Griffin, Dustin, Satire: A Critical Reintroduction, Lexington, University Press of
Kentucky, 1994
Lord, George de F., Heroic Mockery: Variations on Epic Themes from Homer to
Joyce, Newark, University of Delaware Press, 1977
Maresca, Thomas E., Epic to Novel, Columbus, Ohio State University Press, 1974
Rawson, Claude, Order from Confusion Sprung: Studies in Eighteenth-Century
Literature from Swift to Cowper, London, George Allen and Unwin, 1985
Satire and Sentiment, 1660–1830, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 1994
Selden, Raman, English Verse Satire 1590–1765, London, George Allen and Unwin,
1978
Terry, Richard, Mock-Heroic from Butler to Cowper, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2005

11 Romantic re-appropriations of the epic

Abrams, M. H., Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic
Literature, New York, Norton, 1971
Curran, Stuart, Poetic Form and British Romanticism, New York, Oxford
University Press, 1986
Kucich, Greg, Keats, Shelley, and Romantic Spenserianism, University Park, PA,
Pennyslvania State University Press, 1991
Sperry, Stuart M., Keats the Poet, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1973
Tucker, Herbert F., Epic: Britain’s Heroic Muse 1790–1910, Oxford, Oxford
University Press, 2008
Vogler, Thomas, A., Preludes to Vision: The Epic Venture in Blake, Wordsworth,
Keats and Hart Crane, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1971

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Wilkie, Brian, Romantic Poets and Epic Tradition, Madison, University of

Wisconsin Press, 1965
Wu, Duncan, ed., Romanticism: An Anthology, 3rd edn, Oxford, Blackwell, 2006

12 Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and the modern epic

Bakhtin, M. M., The Dialogic Imagination, ed. Michael Holquist, trans. Caryl
Emerson and Michael Holquist, Austin, University of Texas Press, 1981
Bernstein, Michael, The Tale of the Tribe: Ezra Pound and the Modern Verse Epic,
Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1980
Bush, Ronald, T. S. Eliot: A Study in Character and Style, New York, Oxford
University Press, 1984
Casillo, Robert, The Genealogy of Demons: Anti-Semitism, Fascism, and the Myths
of Ezra Pound, Evanston, IL, Northwestern University Press, 1988
Eksteins, Modris, Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age,
New York, Anchor Doubleday, 1989
Eliot, T. S., The Waste Land: A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts
Including the Annotations of Ezra Pound, ed. Valerie Eliot, New York,
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971
The Annotated Waste Land, with Eliot’s Contemporary Prose, ed. Lawrence
Rainey, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2005
Kenner, Hugh, The Pound Era, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1971
Lukács, Georg, The Historical Novel, Lincoln, NB, University of Nebraska Press, 1983
Makin, Peter, Pound’s Cantos, London, George Allen and Unwin, 1985
Marcus, Laura, and Nicholls, Peter, eds., The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century
English Literature, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004
Menand, Louis, Discovering Modernism: T. S. Eliot and his Context, New York,
Oxford University Press, 1987
Moretti, Franco, Modern Epic: The World-System from Goethe to Garcia Marquez,
New York, Verso, 1996
Nicholls, Peter, Ezra Pound: Politics, Economics, Writing, London, Macmillan, 1984
North, Michael, Reading 1922: A Return to the Scene of the Modern, New York,
Oxford University Press, 1999
Rainey, Lawrence, ed., A Poem Including History: The Cantos of Ezra Pound,
Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1996
Redman, Tim, Ezra Pound and Italian Fascism, Cambridge, Cambridge University
Press, 1991
Sherry, Vincent, Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, and Radical Modernism, New York,
Oxford University Press, 1993
Sieburth, Richard, ed., Ezra Pound: The Pisan Cantos, New York, New Directions, 2003
Surette, Leon, Pound in Purgatory: From Economic Radicalism to Anti-Semitism,
Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1999

13 Derek Walcott’s ‘Omeros’

Baer, William, ed., Literary Conversations with Derek Walcott, Jackson, MS,
University Press of Mississippi, 1996
Baugh, Edward, Derek Walcott, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006

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Bloom, Harold, ed., Derek Walcott, Philadelphia, Chelsea House, 2003

Breslin, Paul, Nobody’s Nation: Reading Derek Walcott, Chicago, University of
Chicago Press, 2002
Brown, Stewart, ed., The Art of Derek Walcott, Bridgend, Seren Books, 1991
Hamner, Robert, Epic of the Dispossessed: Derek Walcott’s ‘Omeros’, Columbia,
University of Missouri Press, 1996
Henrikson, Line, Ambition and Anxiety: Ezra Pound’s ‘Cantos’ and Derek Walcott’s
‘Omeros’ as Twentieth-Century Epics, Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2006
Ismond, Patricia, Abandoning Dead Metaphors: The Caribbean Phase of Derek
Walcott’s Poetry, Kingston, Jamaica, University of West Indies Press, 2001
King, Bruce, Derek Walcott: A Caribbean Life, Oxford, Oxford University Press,
2000
Pollard, Charles W., New World Modernisms: T. S. Eliot, Derek Walcott, and
Kamau Braithwaite, Charlottesville, VA, University of Virginia Press, 2004
Thieme, John, Derek Walcott, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1999
Wilson-Tagoe, Nana, Historical Thought and Literary Representation in West
Indian Literature, Gainesville, University Press of Florida, 1998

14 Epic in translation
Benjamin, Walter, The Arcades Project [Das Passagen-Werk], Cambridge, MA,
Harvard University Press, 1999
Bernstein, Michael, The Tale of the Tribe, Princeton, Princeton University Press,
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