To illustrate and reinforce the above, see in the first place articles on the different national literatures, especially French and Icelandic; as also the following:— Classical or Pseudo-Classical Subjects.—APOLLONIUS OF TYRE; LONGUS ; HELIODORUS ; APULEIUS ; TROY ; THEBES ; CAESAR, JULIUS ; ALEXANDER THE GREAT ; HERCULES ; JASON ; OEDIPUS ; VIRGIL.
Arthurian Romance.—ARTHURIAN LEGEND; and the articles on ro mance writers such as Malory, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Chretien de Troyes, Gottfried von Strasbourg, etc.
French Romance.—CHARLES (THE GREAT) ; GUILLAUME D'ORANGE ; DOON DE MAYENCE ; OGIER THE DANE ; ROLAND ; RENAUD DE MON TAUBAN (Quatre fils Aymon) ; HUON OF BORDEAUX ; GIRART DE Rous SILLON ; MACAIRE ; PARTONOPEUS DE BLOIS ; ROBERT THE DEVIL ; FLORE AND BLANCHEFLEUR ; RAOUL DE CAMBRAI ; GUILLAUME DE PALERNE ; BENOIT DE SAINTE-MORE, etc.
Anglo-Norman, Anglo-Danish, English Romance.—BEVIS OF HAMP TON ; HORN ; HAVELOK ; GUY OF WARWICK ; ROBIN HOOD ; MAID MARIAN.
German.—NIBELUNGENLIED ; ORTNIT ; DIETRICH OF BERNE ; WOLF DIETRICH ; HELDENBUCH ; WALTHARIUS ; GUDRUN ; HILDE13RAND, LAY OF ; RUODLIEB.
Northern.—SIGURD ; WAYLAND ; HAMLET ; EDDA.
Spanish.—AMADIS DE GAULA.
Various.—REYNARD ; ROMAN DE LA ROSE ; GRISELDA and kindred stories ; GENEVIEVE OF BRABANT ; GESTA ROMANORUM ; BARLAAM AND JOSAPHAT ; SEVEN WISE MASTERS ; MAELDUNE, VOYAGE OF.
remarkable dialogue De la Lecture des vieux romans written by Chapelain in mid-17th century (ed. Feillet, 187o), which is a surpris ing and thoroughgoing defence of its subjects. But for long afterwards there was little save unintelligent and mostly quite ignorant deprecia tion. The sequence of really important serious works almost begins with Hurd's Letters on Chivalry and Romance (1762). In succession to this may be consulted on the general subject (which alone can be here regarded) the dissertations of Percy, Warton and Ritson ; Sir Walter Scott, "Essay on Romance" in the supplement to the Encyclo pasdia Britannica ; Dunlop, History of Fiction (1816, use fully supplemented and completed by its 4th edition, 1888, with very large additions by H. Wilson) ; C. L. B. Wolff, Allgemeine Geschichte des Romans (Jena, 1841-50) ; H. L. D. Ward, Catalogue of Romances in the British Museum (vol. i. 1883, vol. ii. 1893) (the most valuable single contribution to the knowledge of the subject) ; G. Saintsbury, The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (1897), and its companion volumes in Periods of European Literature [W. P. Ker, The Dark Ages (1904) ; F. J. Snell, The Fourteenth Century (1899) G. Gregory Smith, The Transition Period (1900) ; D. Hannay, The Later Renaissance (1898)] ; W. P. Ker, Epic and Romance (1897).
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