English 596g: Readings in Epic Poetry

Prof. John Ulreich

 

Syllabus (PDF)

 

Course Readings

Aristotle's Poetics (for 8/28)

Sidney's Defense of Poesie (for 8/28)

Part 1 of Webber's Milton and His Epic Tradition (PDF for 8/28)

Part 2 (for 8/28)

Selections from The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism (PDF, for 8/28)

Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (trans. John Harrington)
(Paperback edition edited by Rudolf Gottfried, Indiana University Press, 1963, 1966, 1969)
9/18: Books 1-6 (all)
9/25: Book 7 (all), 19 (stanzas 12-33), 23 (stanzas 77-108), 24 (stanzas 1-12), 28 (stanzas 1-83), 32 (stanzas 10-103)
10/2: Books 33-35 (all), 36 (stanzas 10-82), 39 (stanzas 44-59)

Torquato Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered (trans. Edward Fairfax)
(Paperback edition published by Capricorn books, 1963)