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| | Epic poetry - definition of Epic poetry in Encyclopedia |
 | | Epic of King Gesar (Tibetan; compiled in 11th century from earlier sources) | | | Parry and Lord also showed that the most likely source for written texts of the epics of Homer was dictation from an oral performance. | | | The Mahabharata, whose 100,000 verses make it four times the size of the Bible and seven times the size of the Iliad and Odyssey combined, is considered the second-largest literary work. |
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| | EPIC POETRY - LoveToKnow Article on EPIC POETRY |
| | It is to Greece, where the earliest literary monuments which we possess are of an epical character, that we turn for a definition of these vast heroic compositions, and we gather that their subject-matter was not confined, as Voltaire and the critics of the 18th century supposed, to narratives in verse of warlike adventures. | | | The Icelandic epics seem to have been shorter and more episodical in character than the lost Teutonic specimens; both kinds were written in alliterative verse. | | | It is now believed that there was a class of minstrels, the Rhapsodists or Homeridae, whose business it was to recite poetry at feasts and other solemn occasions. |
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| | Serbian epic poetry Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com |
| | Slavic antithesis: There two pines were growing together, and among them one thin-topped fir; neither there were just some two green pines nor among them one thin-topped fir, but those two were just some two born brothers one is Pavle, other is Radule and among them little sis' Jelena. | | | There are new songs that mimic Serbian epic poetry, but are humorous and not epic in nature; these are also circulating around with no known author. | | | Serbian epic poetry is being made even today in this same form. |
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