Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-256) and index.
Preface / Harold Bloom -- Introduction / Harold Bloom -- Genesis and Exodus -- Homer (c. 8th cen. B.C.E.) / Iliad/Odyssey -- Virgil (c. 84-54 B.C.E.) / Aeneid -- Anonymous (written c. 700-750) / Beowulf -- Lady Murasaki (978-1014) / Tale of Genji -- Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) / Divine Comedy -- Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400) / Canterbury Tales -- Edmund Spenser (c. 1552-1599) / Faerie Queene -- John Milton (1608-1674) / Paradise Lost -- William Wordsworth (1770-1850) / Prelude -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) / Rime of the Ancient Mariner -- Herman Melville (1819-1891) / Moby-Dick -- Walt Whitman (1819-1892) / Song of Myself -- Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) / War and Peace -- Marcel Proust (1871-1922) / In Search of Lost Time -- Thomas Mann (1875-1955) / Magic Mountain -- James Joyce (1882-1941) / Ulysses -- T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) / Waste Land -- Hart Crane (1899-1932) / Bridge -- Further reading -- Index -- About the author.
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A collection of critical writings about some of the greatest epic works in the Western literary tradition, including "The Iliad," "The Aeneid," "Beowulf," "The Divine Comedy," "Paradise Lost," and James Joyce's "Ulysses."