The Epic
- Author / Editor
- Merchant, Paul.
The Epic
- Published
- London: Methuen, 1971.
- Physical Description
- viii, 103 pp.
- Description
- Discusses classical, medieval, early modern, and modern examples of literary works that have been defined as "epic," seeking to demonstrate the uses and development of the term. Includes discussion of "Langland and Chaucer" (pp. 41-44) as part of the "New Form" of epic developed in the Middle Ages. CT and Langland's "Piers Plowman" are both examples of the "long poem" in English that are not part of the "central line of epic."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General