PREFACE
POSTSCRIPT
INTRODUCTION
I
The Heroic Age
II
Epic and Romance
III
Romantic Mythology
IV
The Three Schools—Teutonic Epic—French Epic—The Icelandic Histories
THE TEUTONIC EPIC
The Tragic Conception
Scale of the Poems
Epic and Ballad Poetry
The Style of the Poems
V
The Progress of Epic
VI
Beowulf
THE ICELANDIC SAGAS
Iceland and the Heroic Age
Matter and Form
The Heroic Ideal
Tragic Imagination
Comedy
The Art of Narrative
VII
Epic and History
VIII
The Northern Prose Romances
CHAPTER IV
THE OLD FRENCH EPIC
(Chansons de Geste)
CHAPTER V
ROMANCE AND THE OLD FRENCH ROMANTIC SCHOOLS
APPENDIX
CHAPTER I
THE HEROIC AGE
EPIC AND ROMANCE
ROMANTIC MYTHOLOGY
THE THREE SCHOOLS—TEUTONIC EPIC—FRENCH EPIC—THE ICELANDIC HISTORIES
CHAPTER II
THE TRAGIC CONCEPTION
SCALE OF THE POEMS
The Western Group
The Northern Group
EPIC AND BALLAD POETRY
THE STYLE OF THE POEMS
THE PROGRESS OF EPIC
BEOWULF
CHAPTER III
ICELAND AND THE HEROIC AGE
MATTER AND FORM
THE HEROIC IDEAL
TRAGIC IMAGINATION
COMEDY
THE ART OF NARRATIVE
EPIC AND HISTORY
THE NORTHERN PROSE ROMANCES
ROMANCE
AND THE OLD FRENCH ROMANTIC SCHOOLS
NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS
Note A (p. 133)
Note B (p. 205)
Note C (p. 257)
Note D (p. 360)
INDEX
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