Religious epic · 1827

The Course of Time

A Poem, in Ten Books

by Robert Pollok

Robert Pollok's blank-verse epic in ten books, in which a bard of Paradise tells a newly arrived spirit the history of mankind from the Creation to the Last Judgement; published months before the young Scottish poet's death, it went through many editions.

Contents · 10 parts

• Book Iabout 490 lines
• Book IIabout 780 lines
• Book IIIabout 1080 lines
• Book IVabout 780 lines
• Book Vabout 1110 lines
• Book VIabout 730 lines
• Book VIIabout 790 lines
• Book VIIIabout 960 lines
• Book IXabout 1210 lines
• Book Xabout 650 lines

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