Ambition and anxiety : Ezra Pound's Cantos and Derek Walcott's Omeros as twentieth-century epics / Line Henriksen.

This comparative study investigates the epic lineage that can be traced back from Derek Walcott's Omeros and Ezra Pound's Cantos through Dante's Divina Commedia to the epic poems of Virgil and Homer, and identifies and discusses in detail a number of recurrent key topoi . A fresh defi...

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Main Author: Henriksen, Line (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2006.
Series:Cross/cultures ; 88.
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