W. P. K.
Oxford, 25th Jan. 1908.
CONTENTS
[CHAPTER I]
INTRODUCTION
I
[The Heroic Age]
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| Epic and Romance: the two great orders of medieval narrative | [3] |
| Epic, of the "heroic age," preceding Romance of the "age of chivalry" | [4] |
| The heroic age represented in three kinds of literature—Teutonic Epic, French Epic, and the Icelandic Sagas | [6] |
| Conditions of Life in an "heroic age" | [7] |
| Homer and the Northern poets | [9] |
| Homeric passages in Beowulf and in the Song of Maldon | [10] [11] |
| Progress of poetry in the heroic age | [13] |
| Growth of Epic, distinct in character, but generally incomplete, among the Teutonic nations | [14] |