The Book of the Epic: The World's Great Epics Told in Story

631 pp. 16 color and 16 black-and-white plates by various artists. Prose translations of epic poems from numerous countries. CONTENTS: Greek Epics: The Iliad; The Odyssey; Latin Epics: The Aeneid; French Epics: The Song of Roland; Aucassin and Nicolette; Spanis Epics: The Cid; Portuguese Epics: The Lusiad; Italian Epics: The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, The Purgatorio, The Paradiso; The Orlandos; Gerusalemme Liberata, or Jerusalem Delivered; Epics of the British Isles: Beowulf; The Arthurian Cycle; Robin Hood; The Faerie Queene; Paradise Lost; Paradise Regained; German Epics: The Nibelugenlied; The Story of the Holy Grail; Epics of the Netherlands; Scandinavian Epics: The Volsunga Saga; Russian and Finnish Epics: The Kalevala, or The Land of Heroes; Epics of Central Europe and of the Balkan Peninsula: William Tell; Serbian Epic Poetry; Hebrew and Early Christian Epics; Arabian and Persian Epics: The Shah-Nameh, or Epic of Kings; Indian Epics: The Ramayana; The Mahabharata; Chinese and Japanese Poetry: White Aster; American Epics: The Song of Hiawatha; Index.