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... poems , lengthy Chris- tiads , and especially brief Christiads . To the last mentioned kind it afforded the example of a fully developed Virgilian epic structure in a poem considerably shorter than the Aeneid , with six rather than the ...
... poems , lengthy Chris- tiads , and especially brief Christiads . To the last mentioned kind it afforded the example of a fully developed Virgilian epic structure in a poem considerably shorter than the Aeneid , with six rather than the ...
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... poem . " Moreover , the Italian poet Marino's lengthy , sensu- ous , and wholly unheroic poem L'Adone ( 1623 ) was widely accepted as an epic and was defended by the French critic Jean Chapelain as an example of a legitimate variety of ...
... poem . " Moreover , the Italian poet Marino's lengthy , sensu- ous , and wholly unheroic poem L'Adone ( 1623 ) was widely accepted as an epic and was defended by the French critic Jean Chapelain as an example of a legitimate variety of ...
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... poems , lengthy Chris- tiads , and especially brief Christiads . To the last mentioned kind it afforded the example of a fully developed Virgilian epic structure in a poem considerably shorter than the Aeneid , with six rather than the ...
... poems , lengthy Chris- tiads , and especially brief Christiads . To the last mentioned kind it afforded the example of a fully developed Virgilian epic structure in a poem considerably shorter than the Aeneid , with six rather than the ...
Contents
CHAPTER | 3 |
THE EXEGETICAL | 10 |
Literary Uses of Job as Epic Theme and Epic Model | 28 |
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