[Gutenberg 8072] • National Epics
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- Authors
- Rabb, Kate Milner
- Publisher
- Books for Libraries Press
- Tags
- epic poetry
- Date
- 1896-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.34 MB
- Lang
- en
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 76-84355
Contains selections from 17 classic epics.
From the Ramayana - The Descent of the Ganges
\- The Death of Yajnadatta
From the Maha-Bharata - Savitri; or, Love and Death
\- The Great Journey
From the Iliad - Helen at the Scaean Gates
\- The Parting of Hector and Andromache
From the Odyssey - The Palace of Alcinous
\- The Bending of the Bow
From the Kalevala - Ilmarinen's Wedding Feast
\- The Birth of the Harp
From the Aeneid - Nisus and Euryalus
From Beowulf - Grendel's Mother
From the Nibelungen Lied - How Brunhild was received at Worms
\- How Margrave Rudeger was slain
From the Song of Roland - The Horn
\- Roland's Death
From the Shah-Nameh - The Rajah of India sends a Chessboard to Nushirvan
\- Zal and Rudabeh
From the Poem of the Cid - Count Raymond and My Cid
\- My Cid's Triumph
From the Divine Comedy - Count Ugolino
\- Buonconte di Montefeltro
\- Beatrice descending from Heaven
\- The Exquisite Beauty of Beatrice
From the Orlando Furioso - The Death of Zerbino
From the Lusiad - Inez de Castro
\- The Spirit of the Cape
From the Jerusalem Delivered - Sophronia and Olindo
From Paradise Lost - Satan
\- Apostrophe to Light
From Paradise Regained - The Temptation of the Vision of the Kingdoms of the Earth