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Adkins, A. Merit and Responsibility: A Study in Greek Values. Oxford, 1960. BJ171.R4 A3 1960 

___. “Values, Goals, and Emotions in the Iliad.” Classical Philology 77 (1982): 292-326. Available from Jstor.

Ahl, F. Lucan: An Introduction. Ithaca, 1976.
 PA25.C7 39

Auerbach, E. Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature. Trans. W. Trask. Princeton, 1953.
 PN56.R3 A83 

Barlow, J. The Works of Joel Barlow, facsimile reproductions with an introduction by W.K. Bottorff and A.L. Ford. 2 vols. Gainesville, FL, 1970.
PS704.A1 1970

Bono, B. J. Literary Transvaluation: From Virgilian Epic to Shakespearean Tragicomedy. Berkeley, 1984.
PA6825.B66 1984 

Bowra, C. M. From Virgil to Milton. London, 1945.
PN1303.B65 

Buell, L. New England Literary Culture: From Revolution through Renaissance. Cambridge, 1986.
PS243.B84 1986 

Camps, W. A. An Introduction to Homer. Oxford, 1980.
PA4037.A5 C3 

Commager, S., ed. Virgil: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1966.
PA6825.A3 1966 

Curtius, E. R. European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages. Princeton, 1953.
PN674.C82 

Desmond, M. J. Reading Dido: Gender, Textuality, and the Medieval Aeneid. Minneapolis, 1994.
PR127.D47 1994 

Dougherty, C. The Raft of Odysseus. Oxford, 2001.

Dowling, W. C. Poetry and Ideology in Revolutionary Connecticut. Athens, GA, 1990.
PS314.D69 1990 

Edwards, M. Homer: Poet of the Iliad. Baltimore, 1987.
PA4037.E39 1987 

Elsner, J. and J. Masters, ed. Reflections of Nero. Chapel Hill, 1994.
DG285.R44 1994 

Erkkila, B. Whitman the Political Poet. Oxford, 1989.
PS3242.P64 E74 1989 

Figueroa, J. “Omeros.” In The Art of Derek Walcott, ed. S. Brown. Chester Springs, PA, 1991. 193-213.
PR9272.9.W3 Z55 1991 

Fish, S. E. Surprised By Sin: The Reader in Paradise Lost. Berkeley, 1971.
PR3562.F5 

Galinsky, K. Augustan Culture. Princeton, 1996.
DG279.G17 1996 

Giamatti, A. B. The Earthly Paradise and the Renaissance Epic. Princeton, 1966.
PN56.G3 G48 

Greene, T. The Descent from Heaven: A Study in Epic Continuity. New Haven, 1963.
PN1303.G7 

___. The Light in Troy: Imitation and Discovery in Renaissance Poetry. New Haven, 1982.
PN223.G7 

Hamner, R. D. Epic of the Dispossessed: Derek Walcott’s Omeros. Columbia and London, 1997.
PR9272.9.W3 O4434 1997 

___., ed. Critical Perspectives on Derek Walcott. Washington, D.C., 1993.
PR9272.9.W3 Z57 1993

Hardie, P. Virgil’s Aeneid: Cosmos and Imperium. Oxford, 1986.
PA6825.H37 1986 

Hedges, W. L. “The Myth of the Republic and the Theory of American Literature.” Prospects 4 (1979): 101-20.

___. “The Old World Yet: Writers and Writing in Post-Revolutionary America.” Early American Literature 16 (1981): 3-18.

Heinze, R. Virgil’s Epic Technique. Trans. H. and D. Harvey and F. Robertson. Berkeley, 1993.
 PA6825.H413 1993 

Hill, C. Milton and the English Revolution. Penguin, 1977.
PR3592.P64 H5 

Johnson, W. R. Darkness Visible: A Study of Virgil’s Aeneid. Berkeley, 1976.
PA6825.J6

___. Momentary Monsters: Lucan and His Heroes. Ithaca, 1987.
PA6480.J64 1987 

Knapp, J. An Empire Nowhere: England, America and Literature from Utopia to The Tempest. Berkeley, 1992.
PR129.A4 K58 1994 

Knox, B. M. W. “The Serpent and the Flame: The Imagery of the Second Book of the Aeneid.” In Virgil: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. S. Commager. 124-142.
PA6825.A3 1966 

Lord, A. B. The Singer of Tales. Cambridge, 1960.
PN1303.L62

Lord, G. D. Classical Presences in Seventeenth-Century English Poetry. New Haven, 1987.
PR545.C67 L67 1987 

Martin, R. The Language of Heroes: Speech and Performance in the Iliad. Princeton, 1989.
PA4037.M335 1989 

Martindale, C. John Milton and the Transformation of Ancient Epic. Totowa, NJ, 1986.
PR3562.M29 1986 

Masters, J. Poetry and Civil War in Lucan’s Bellum Civile. Cambridge, 1992.
PA6480.M35 1992 

Matthiessen, F. O. American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman. Oxford, 1941.
PS201.M3 

Miller, J. E. The American Quest for a Supreme Fiction: Whitman’s Legacy in the Personal Epic. Chicago, 1979.
PS3236.M5

Nagy, G. The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry. Cambridge, 1999.
PA3015.H43 N34 1999 

Nicolet, C. Space, Geography, and Politics in the Early Roman Empire. Ann Arbor, 1991.
G86.N5313 1991 

Otis, B. “The Odyssean Aeneid and the Iliadic Aeneid.” In Virgil: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. S. Commager. 89-106.
PA6825.A3 1966 

Parker, P. A. Literary Fat Ladies: Rhetoric, Gender, Property. London & New York, 1987.
PN56.5.W64 P37 1987 

___. Inescapable Romance: Studies in the Poetics of a Mode. Princeton, 1979.
PN1326.P37 

Parry, A., ed. The Making of Homeric Verse: The Collected Papers of Milman Parry. Oxford, 1971.
PA4205.P3 

Pavlock, B. Eros, Imitation, and the Epic Tradition. Ithaca, 1990.
PA3022.E6 P38 1990 

Pöschl, V. The Art of Virgil. Trans. G. Seligson. Ann Arbor, 1966.
PA6825.P613 

Quint, D. Epic and Empire: Politics and Generic Form from Virgil to Milton. Princeton, 1993.
PN1303.Q56 1993 

Redfield, J. Nature and Culture in the Iliad. 2nd ed. Chicago, 1994.
PA4037.R38 1994 

Rowe, J. C. At Emerson’s Tomb: The Politics of Classic American Literature. New York, 1997.
PS217.P64 R69 1997 

Schein, S. L. The Mortal Hero: An Introduction to Homer’s Iliad. Berkeley, 1984.
PA4037.S394 1984 

___., ed. Reading the Odyssey: Selected Interpretive Essays. Princeton, 1996.
PA4167.R43 1996

Vermeule, E. Aspects of Death in Early Greek Art and Poetry. Berkeley, 1979.
q NX650.D4 V47 

Watkins, J. The Specter of Dido: Spenser and Virgilian Epic. New Haven, 1995.
PR2367.L5 W38 1995 

Wofford, S. L. The Choice of Achilles: The Ideology of Figure in the Epic. Stanford, 1992.
PR2358.W6 1992

Zanker, P. The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus. Ann Arbor, 1988.
N5760.Z36 1988 

Ziolkowski, T. Virgil and the Moderns. Princeton, 1993.
PA6825.Z56 1993 

 
 
 
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