Heroic poem · 1651

Gondibert

An Heroick Poem

by Sir William Davenant

Davenant’s unfinished heroic poem in decasyllabic quatrains — three books and twenty cantos of love, war and statecraft among the Lombards.

Contents · 20 parts

• Book I · Canto Iabout 330 lines
• Book I · Canto IIabout 330 lines
• Book I · Canto IIIabout 370 lines
• Book I · Canto IVabout 230 lines
• Book I · Canto Vabout 340 lines
• Book I · Canto VIabout 330 lines
• Book II · Canto Iabout 310 lines
• Book II · Canto IIabout 370 lines
• Book II · Canto IIIabout 270 lines
• Book II · Canto IVabout 270 lines
• Book II · Canto Vabout 280 lines
• Book II · Canto VIabout 350 lines
• Book II · Canto VIIabout 360 lines
• Book II · Canto VIIIabout 370 lines
• Book III · Canto Iabout 350 lines
• Book III · Canto IIabout 440 lines
• Book III · Canto IIIabout 260 lines
• Book III · Canto IVabout 390 lines
• Book III · Canto Vabout 310 lines
• Book III · Canto VIabout 330 lines

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