How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics by Calvert Watkins

How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics

Calvert Watkins

640 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction history poetry informative reflective slow-paced

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In How to Kill a Dragon Calvert Watkins follows the continuum of poetic formulae in Indo-European languages, from Old Hittite to medieval Irish. He uses the comparative method to reconstruct traditional poetic formulae of considerable complexity t...

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