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Don Juan , in its tradition of the Italian burlesque and the Italian heroic epics , allowed for both emotion and ... Where the dramas drew upon a fairly well defined type , the epic harked back to the whole field of Italian epic in ...
Don Juan , in its tradition of the Italian burlesque and the Italian heroic epics , allowed for both emotion and ... Where the dramas drew upon a fairly well defined type , the epic harked back to the whole field of Italian epic in ...
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If that be not an epic , if it be not strictly according to Aristotle , I don't know what an v epic means . " 67 Of course that is not strictly according to . Aristotle , any more than Byron was sure of writing only twenty - four cantos ...
If that be not an epic , if it be not strictly according to Aristotle , I don't know what an v epic means . " 67 Of course that is not strictly according to . Aristotle , any more than Byron was sure of writing only twenty - four cantos ...
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The epic goes forward not in a flow but in great strides ; -Seven - League - Boot strides — at each of which the story is advanced into another region and a contrasting atmosphere . The epic , though a picaresque epic , has not an utter ...
The epic goes forward not in a flow but in great strides ; -Seven - League - Boot strides — at each of which the story is advanced into another region and a contrasting atmosphere . The epic , though a picaresque epic , has not an utter ...
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