1 “...This is a study in oral poetic composition. It examines how oral poets compose their recitations...”

2 “... community of professional poet-singers, Dwight F. Reynolds reveals how the epic tradition continues...”

3 Table of Contents: “.... Poets inside and outside the epic -- 3 . The economy of poetic style -- pt. 2: Textual and performance...”

4 “... by the Nobel prize-winner Anatole France, professor-poet Katharine Lee Bates, philosopher-historian Henry Adams...”