Vergil and the English poets

Introduction.

The mediaeval tradition.

Chaucer, his contemporaries and his imitators.

Vergil and humanism.

Spenser and the English renaissance.

Milton and the classical epic.

Dryden and Pope.

Thomson and the didactic poets.

Landor and the romanticists.

Tennyson and the Victorians.

Bibliography: Books of reference, List of translations, burlesques, parodies, and imitations (p. 235-244)