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| | Epic poetry - Wikipedia, the free 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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http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/E/EP/EPIC_POETRY.htm
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| | In the poem “The Strait,” Berry unifies all people of the earth as equal in their mortality as he says “the world’s one song is passing/ in and out of deaths, as thrush notes/ move in the shadows
”(3. | | | Like all epic poems, Berry’s “The Wheel,” explores themes of spirituality, death, and their place in the eternal journey. | | | His first of three poems titled “Song,” Berry writes “In ignorance of the source, our want/ affirms abundance in these days./ Truth keeps us though we do not know it./ O Spirit, our desolation is your praise” (1-4). |
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http://www.unc.edu/~amwilson/images/thewheel.doc
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| | Reviews of Epic Literature |
| | Translation and extensive commentary on the 15th-century epic of the founding of Haripunjaya, a 7th century Buddhist domain in northern Thailand. | | | Discusses women's representation in a variety of sources: epic poems, religious writings, sacred tales,etc.; actually includes discussion of the Tibetan myth Gesar of Ling and the Popul Vuh. | | | The more specific Butler gets as to person, place, and time of composition, the less convincing his argument is. However, when he focuses on the many little oddities of the poem, as well as some of its overarching, thematic repetitions, I am sometimes persuaded. |
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http://www.auburn.edu/~downejm/reviews.html
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| | Writing Epics and Epyllia |
| | Some typical patrons for the beginning poet in the SCA might be the subject of the epic, the baroness or baron, royalty, or the head of your household. | | | However, hiring a reader (like, say, a herald) who has a good speaking voice and who is at ease with putting on a show is a natural choice if you are easily spooked on stage, or have other reasons for not reciting it yourself. | | | The supernatural, things or characters such as magic items, monsters, enchanters, and even up to the very hosts of Heaven, are major elements in most of these poems. |
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http://pages.ripco.net/~clevin/epos.html
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Latin Literature in Christianity (Sixth To Twentieth Century) |
| | It reminds us of a similar poem by Hroswitha, though the apocryphal narratives taken from the so-called Gospel of St. James are marked by greater depth. | | | Most representatives of the new movement preserved their close connection with the Church, although a few isolated forerunners of the great revolt of the sixteenth century already made their appearance. | | | Peter Esseiva, a Swiss, is the best-known prize winner: he celebrated in beautiful classical verse and brilliant Latin such modern inventions as the railroad, etc., and also treated strictly religious and light topics (e. |
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| | Arts - Poetry: Epic |
| | A number of shorter poems in epic style, the Homeric Hymns, are of considerable beauty. | | | Hesiod's other surviving poem, the Theogony, attempts a systematic genealogy of the gods and recounts many myths associated with their part in the creation of the universe. | | | Certain mysteries remain: the date of the great poet or poets who gave structure and shape to the two epics; the social function of poems that take several days to recite; and the manner in which these poems came to be recorded in writing probably in the course of the 6th century B.C. |
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http://www.archaeonia.com/arts/poetry/epic.htm
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| | Homer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The traditional solution is the "transcription hypothesis", wherein a non-literate "Homer" dictates his poem to a literate scribe in the 6th century BC or earlier. | | | It has repeatedly been questioned whether the same poet was responsible for both the Iliad and the Odyssey; the Batrachomyomachia, Homeric hymns and cyclic poems are generally agreed to be later than these two epic poems. | | | The excavations of Heinrich Schliemann in the late 19th century began to convince scholars there was a historical basis for the Trojan War. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer
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| | Chansons de geste (from epic) -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | These narrative poems have survived in manuscripts dating from the 12th to the 15th century, but they deal chiefly with events of... | | | More than 80 chansons, most of them thousands of lines long, have survived in manuscripts dating from the 12th to the 15th century, but they deal chiefly with events of the 8th and 9th centuries during the reigns of Charlemagne and his successors. | | | Today the word epic is often more loosely applied to a book or motion... |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-50879?tocId=50879
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| | [Projekat Rastko Gracanica] The Battle of Kosovo (Serbian Epic Poems) |
| | Many of these poems dealt with the struggles between Serbs or Croats and the Turks, although most of them sang of battles which were fought well after Kosovo. | | | It is hard to know when and how the old women became custodians of several of the greatest epic poems in the tradition. | | | The world from which these poems came didn't change that much from the days of the Greek dramatists. |
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http://www.kosovo.com/sk/rastko-kosovo/umetnost/battle_of_kosovo.html
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| | epic |
| | The two main epic poems in the Western tradition are The Iliad and The Odyssey, attributed to the Ancient Greek Homer, which were probably intended to be chanted in sections at feasts. | | | Genre of narrative poem or cycle of poems dealing with some great deed – often the founding of a nation or the forging of national unity – and often using religious or cosmological themes. | | | Because of the length of epic poems and their concern with important themes, the term ‘epic’ is often applied to works that are written on a large scale and are considered to be of great importance. |
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http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0001193.html
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| | §1. Early National Poems the work of Minstrels. III. Early National Poetry. Vol. 1. From the Beginnings to the ... |
| | Some of the warriors, he says, had their fighting spirit roused by the melody, while others, advanced in age, burst into tears, lamenting the loss of their strength—a passage which bears rather a striking resemblance to Beowulf& account of the feast in Hrothgar’s hall. | | | To the former are assigned those poems of which the subjects are drawn from English, or rather Teutonic, tradition and history or from the customs and conditions of English life; to the latter those which deal with Biblical matter, ecclesiastical traditions and religious subjects of definitely Christian origin. | | | First, there is some reason for believing that, for the most part, they are the work of minstrels rather than of literary men. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Epic |
| | At other times epics may synthesize the ideals of a great religious or cultural movement. | | | In Persia the poet Firdawsi, drawing upon historical sources, composed the Persian national epic Shāh-Nāmah (Book of Kings, 1010). | | | Search for books and more related to Epic |
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| | Verse: Poetry Anthologies and Thousands of Poems. Bartleby.com |
| | A Child’s Garden of Verses and Underwoods, with Life of Robert Louis Stevenson by Alexander Harvey. | | | Pulitzer Prize–winning collection of 166 poems, which includes the best examples of his work in both long and short verse forms. | | | Collections of verse by one of the greatest lyric poets of twentieth-century literature. |
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http://www.bartleby.com/verse
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| | Homer - Free Online Library |
| | The Homeric Hymns, a series of short poems that honor the Greek gods, is also attributed to Homer. | | | The Odyssey tells the story of Odysseus, King of Ithaka, who, while on his way home from the Trojan War, offends the sea god, Poseidon, and is doomed to another ten years of wandering before being able to return to his home and family. | | | The book questions whether Homer ever existed and if the two epic poems could have been written by one person. |
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http://homer.thefreelibrary.com
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| | Ancient Ships: The Ships of Antiquity - Reading List |
| | In his History, the war between the Greeks and Persians, the origins of their enmity, and. | | | After these and numerous other legendary encounters he finally reaches home, where, disguised as a beggar, he begins to plan revenge on the suitors who have for years been besieging Penelope and feasting on his own meat and wine with insolent impunity. | | | Jason emerges as an all-too-human Everyman with the one real talent of being able to make women fall in love with him. |
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http://artsales.com/ARTistory/Ancient_Ships/14_booklist1_ancient_ships.html
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| | UNESCO Courier: Shaka the Great - epic poems of Zulu people |
| | Since the advent of Christianity, some communities have taken to public dramatizations of the achievements of Jesus Christ, which are invariably modelled on the Shakan epic. | | | This is not to say that before the shaken epic there was no powerful Zulu heroic poetry; there was. | | | Throughout the epic there is no reference to Shaka's personal appearance. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1310/is_1985_August/ai_3877970
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| | EDSITEment - Lesson Plan |
| | Divide students into small groups where they will work on definitions of "oral tradition" and "literate tradition." Once they have established working definitions of the two traditions, ask them to imagine some of the issues related to the telling of stories by means of oral rather than written communication. | | | Introduce some of the additional elements of traditional epic poems, such as the formal and florid language, their opening with an invocation, or the use of epithets (such as "fleet-footed Achilles"). | | | Epic poems are more than simply a lengthy story told in poetic form, and their ability to remain accessible, relevant, and remembered over time owes a significant debt to their roots in an oral tradition and to their cyclical pattern of events. |
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http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=587
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| | Serbian Epic Poetry : Introduction |
| | Over centuries of retelling they came to be a sort of patriotic national mythology. | | | The one footnote which appears on the same page as the poem is by the translator; footnotes which appear on the separate page of notes are my own, as are the other notes on that page. | | | The oral tradition of the epic poems continues in Serbia to this day, and in the minds of most Serbs they represent historical truth. |
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http://home.earthlink.net/~markdlew/SerbEpic
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| | Photographic sea journey more epic without poems |
| | They're so bad, I couldn't tear myself away from reading them, thinking there was some secret code or meaning that would explain their awkwardness. | | | This leads us to the second problem, which is that they're terrible poems. | | | Where would he go and what lessons would he learn in his travels? |
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http://www.suntimes.com/output/galleries/wkp-news-hawk31.html
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| | Vergil's Aeneid and the Epic Cycle |
| | Alexandrian scholars edited the cyclic poems, but they are now lost, except for very few fragments. | | | This question and its answer will also be linked to an attempt to explain what "one of the major surprises of literature" (Clausen 12), that is, the fact that Vergil, a neoteric, primarily Callimachean poet in his earlier career (when he wrote the | | | This essay will address the question of why Vergil might have used, as models for his own epic, poems which have been universally considered unsuccessful. |
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http://vergil.classics.upenn.edu/comm2/sources/cycle
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| | HyperEpos |
| | Note: Though I do include links to some creative, occasionally naive endeavors, I try not to include sites like the following (straight from the original): "Oral poets can whole heroic poems a formulae in construction of their epics although in this case Homer did not." | | | And I have finally incorporated a search page for this directory, which may help if you're not sure where to start looking. | | | The Heroic Poem, or The Epic: A Family Rather Than a Genre Useful observations, but unfortunately, Philip Allingham does not address the important theoretical claim made in the title |
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http://www.auburn.edu/~downejm/hyperepos.html
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| | KATERINA SARRI WEBTOPOS - GREECE - HISTORY |
| | But religion has never dominated over the thought of greek philosophers of the time. | | | HOMER's (OMHPOΣ) epic poems are full of the joys, jealousies and caprices of gods and heroes. | | | Regas Feraeos Velestinlis was a revolutionary mind that envisioned a united balkans including the Turks, wrote its Constitution, poems etc. But his proposal for greek language as official did not appeal to the balkanians. |
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http://www.users.otenet.gr/~bm-celusy/history.html
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| | Search for "Epic Poems" provided by Poetry Connection |
| | 3 If a man lives with two poems, he shall be unfaithful to one. | | | 1 If a man understands a poem, he shall have troubles. | | | 2 If a man lives with a poem, he shall die lonely. |
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http://www.poetryconnection.net/search/Epic_Poems
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| | Epic |
| | The verse form varies: Beowulf is written in traditional Old English meters; Spenser uses his own Spenserian stanza; Milton uses blank verse; and Dryden and Pope use heroic couplets. | | | The epic simile is a feature of Homer's verse (see Simile for an example). | | | In both Greek and Latin, the most common epic |
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http://www.english.upenn.edu/~jlynch/Terms/Temp/epic.html
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| | Bush Satire - The Bushiad and The Idyossey - It's a Homer |
| | Like Homer's Greek gods they do all they can to make sure the outcome is fixed. | | | In Homer's works, these conflicts are abetted by powerful immortal gods who use mortals to satisfy their needs, and who work behind the scenes to fix events and outcomes. | | | As vividly described 2,500 years ago in Homer's epic poems of the battle of Troy and the struggle of one warrior to return home The Iliad and The Odyssey, war is the product of powerful, ambitious, often insecure men who have difficulty separating their personal motivations from those of the state. |
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| | HNRS 172: ANCIENT AND MODERN EPIC |
| | And yet, Walcott has claimed that his poem is not epic. | | | There follows an examination of two texts, one from the medieval and the other from the period of the Renaissance, which depend heavily on the ancient epic poems, Dante's Inferno (Part One of the Commedia), and Milton's Paradise Lost. | | | Though all of these poems, from Homer's to Milton's, remain much studied and influential, nevertheless it is arguable whether there has been a successful epic poem in English, or in any other European language, since Paradise Lost. |
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http://www.denison.edu/honors/seminars/hnrs172g.html
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| | Homer -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Although these two great epic poems of ancient Greece have always been attributed to the shadowy figure of Homer, little is known of him beyond the fact that his was the name attached in antiquity by the Greeks themselves to the poems. | | | Translation of this entire epic poem of Ancient Greece supposed to be written by Homer. | | | That there was an epic poet called Homer and that he&; |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=109234
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| | Reciting epic poems offers heart benefits |
| | Twenty volunteers with a history of cardiovascular disease were invited to a therapy centre on three occasions, at the same time of day, to perform exercises involving either a hexameter recitation, controlled breathing, or spontaneous breathing. | | | Finding that brain blood flow oscillations have already been reported during the recitation of the Catholic Rosary, or the "Om" mantra, the investigators undertook a study to determine the effects of reciting hexameters - a format unique to classic Greek and Roman epic poems that follows certain rhythmic schemes, or meters. | | | However, they add that the complete physiological origin of this synchronisation is not yet understood as many other factors could play a part in the process. |
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http://www.patienthealthinternational.com/news/2612.aspx
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| | Italicization |
| | War and Peace, The Importance of Being Earnest, Paradise Lost. | | | Indicate titles of books, plays, and epic poems: |
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| | Literature, Education, and Romanticism |
| | Romantic texts - including Wordsworth, Shelley, Blake, and Yearsley - are reinterpreted in the light of the complex historical and social issues which inform them and which they in turn critically address. | | | In chapters focused on such topics as definitions of childhood, educational methods and institutions, children’s literature, female education, and publishing ventures aimed at working-class adults, Richardson demonstrates how literary genres, from fairy tales to epic poems, were enlisted in an ambitious programme for transforming social relations through reading and education. | | | The result is an unprecedented study of how transformations in schooling and literacy in Britain between 1780 and 1832 helped shape the provision of literature as we now know it. |
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| | Monarch Notes: English Epic Poems: Introduction@ HighBeam Research |
| | The poems are all of interest today and continue to generate critical | | | poems in this group each represent in their own way a high level of poetic | | | Monarch Notes: English Epic Poems: Introduction@ HighBeam Research |
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| | Epic_Poems |
| | An epic poem depicts the adventures of a mythic hero. |
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| | The Faerie Queene |
| | Commendatory Poems and Sonnets to Persons of Rank | | | Markup is copyright © 1995 University of Oregon; this version is distributed for nonprofit use only. |
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http://www.uoregon.edu/~rbear/fqintro.html
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| | Celtic Links |
| | Remarkable," "enthralling," "rich with insight:" the critics are raving about this six-hour television and video event chronicling the triumphant role the Irish have played in shaping America. | | | Welcome to the Web site for the historic epic The Irish in America: Long Journey Home. | | | Brighid's Crossing - mailing list for individuals devoted to the Celtic Goddess Brighid or Brigit |
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