Allegorical poetics & the epic Book

	Preface
	Acknowledgements
Pt. I	Theory of Allegory in Poetry and Epic from Antiquity to the Renaissance
1	Antiquity to the Middle Ages	3
2	Renaissance Theoretical Developments	18
3	The English Mythographers and Their Tradition	28
4	"Idea"	42
Pt. II	Theory of the Allegorical Epic from Tasso, Spenser and the Neoclassicals to Milton
5	Tasso: The Practical Problems of the Allegorical Epic	53
6	Tasso, the Discorsi: Aesthetics of the Allegorical Epic	69
7	Tasso, the Major Tracts: The Poetics of the Allegorical Epic	80
8	Spenser as Allegorical Theorist	95
9	Neoclassical Epic Theory: The Debate over Allegory	106
10	Le Bossu on the Epic	119
11	Debts to Renaissance Allegory in Paradise Lost	126
12	Allegorical Poetics in Paradise Lost	138
13	Allegory and "Idea" in Paradise Lost	150
Pt. III	"Real Or Allegoric": Representation in Paradise Lost
14	Historical Problems in Reading Paradise Lost	171
15	Scripture and the Figurative Reading of Paradise Lost	181
16	Theory of Metaphor in Paradise Lost	191
17	Typology and the Figurative Dimension in Paradise Lost	204
18	Protestant Homiletics and Allegory in Paradise Lost	222
19	"Accommodation" in Paradise Lost: The Internal View	231
20	Toward an Allegorical Poesis in Paradise Lost	239
21	The "Language of Allegory" and Milton's Allegorical Epic	251
	Appendix A. Bibliographical Essay on Tasso	257
	Appendix B. "Idea"	263
	Appendix C. Tasso and Spenser	267
	Appendix D. The Literal Level and the "Literal Commentators"	275
	Appendix E. "Accommodation" and Figuration in Paradise Lost	278
	Appendix F. Typological Criticism	282
	Notes	287
	List of Works Cited	335
	Index	350