The Epic Voice

actual Adam Adam's adventures allegory allowed already angelic Arcadia artistic attempt audience becomes beginning Book chapter characterization characters complication course creation critics delegated narration demands describes device direct distinction divine effect English epic episode example exposition fact Faerie Queene final follows function hand hero heroic heroic poem Homer human Iliad important incident intention ironic Kalander's kind knowledge later least less limited lines literary main action major medias res Milton Musidorus narrative nature necessary Nestor's never obvious occasion Odyssey offers omniscient narration omniscient voice Paradise Lost parallel Phaeacians plot poem poet possible presence princes problem Pyrocles question Raphael reader reasons recognize relationship represent restricted narration restricted voice reveals revision rhetorical romance seems serves Sidney Sidney's significant similes speaker Spenser story structure successful suggests tangential tell things tion tradition Ulysses