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The Theory of the Epic in England, 1650-1800

Book by H. T. Swedenberg Jr.; University of California Press, 1944

Subjects:

Criticism--Great Britain--History, Epic Poetry--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...entire Iliad, 10 and that an epic poet who tried to follow the strict unity...Having followed this method, the epic poet should mix fiction and truth judiciously...we find Cinthio writing that the epic poet has no business concerning himself...
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The Book of the Epic: The World's Great Epics Told in Story

Book by H. A. Guerber; Biblo and Tannen, 1966

Subjects:

Epic Poetry--Paraphrases, Tales, Etc

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...races"; and the real poet has been, as a rule...definitions of an epic and rules for its...golden fleece. This epic was received so coldly that the poet, in disgust, withdrew...strain, by composing an epic of some thirty-five...are lost. Another poet, Naevius, a century...
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The Fortunes of Epic Poetry: A Study in English and American Criticism, 1750-1950

Book by Donald M. Foerster; Catholic University of America Press, 1962

Subjects:

Criticism--Great Britain, Criticism--United States, Epic Poetry--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...heroic virtue by example": 3 the epic poet desires to teach, to enlighten the...one derived from Bossu, that the epic poet first selects his moral, then his...the secondary Qualities of an Epic Poet " but he "wanted that all-comprehensive...
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English Epic and Heroic Poetry

Book by W. Macneile Dixon; J. M. Dent & Sons, 1912

Subjects:

English Poetry--History And Criticism, Epic Poetry, English

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...would restrict the canvas of the epic poet, permitting him only the events...any stranger asks who is their epic poet, they can answer: " We have two...it is no longer possible for the epic poet to secure scope and verge enough...
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Epic and Epoch: Essays on the Interpretation and History of a Genre

Book by Steven M. Oberhelman, Van Kelly, Richard J. Golsan; Texas Tech University Press, 1994

Subjects:

Epic Poetry--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...seventeenth- century poet Desmarests de Saint-Sorlin, in his epic Clovis, repeats the...very manifest when the poet describes his epic as a reading, or construction...Achilles became, the poet transformed the oral epic tradition he had inherited...

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Goethe's Faust and European Epic: Forgetting the Future

Journal article by Ian Cooper; Christianity and Literature, Vol. 57, 2008

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Goethe's Faust and European Epic: Forgetting the Future (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...skill with which an epic poet met the challenge...the entirety of the epic system and the fate...world" since here the poet is no longer "filled...the development of epic melancholy from Achilles...of the melancholy poet in Torquato Tasso...
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The Development and Meaning of the Epic of Gilgamesh: An Interpretive Essay

Journal article by Tzvi Abusch; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 121, 2001

Subjects:

Epic literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Epic of Gilgamesh (Poem)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Iraq--Literature, Sumeria--Literature

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...the text that he wrote and that the epic poet has written for us. Hence, Gilgamesh...the new prologue, we learn that the Epic has now become a work of written literature...serve as the basis for the literary epic (SB I, 24-28). The difference between...
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From Many Gods to One: Divine Action in Renaissance Epic

Journal article by Daniel Javitch; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 60, 2007

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, From Many Gods to One: Divine Action in Renaissance Epic (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...consent for mortal suffering, which looms particularly large in epic, becomes a much thornier problem for the Christian epic poet than for Homer or Virgil. Furthermore, "Divine partisanship became endowed with an intrinsic moral significance not present...
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Design and Rhetoric in a Sanskrit Court Epic: The Kiratarjuniya of Bharavi

Journal article by Edwin Gerow; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 124, 2004

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Design and Rhetoric in a Sanskrit Court Epic: The Kiratarjuniya of Bharavi (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...epic source itself, obviously, but also those cultural universes of discourse that provide intellectual "content" for the epic poet--Nyaya, for example, in the debates among the characters, or the purusartha literature in re Arjunas "right" to engage...
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The Quest for Epic: From Ariosto to Tasso

Journal article by Monica Calabritto; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 60, 2007

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The Quest for Epic: From Ariosto to Tasso (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...is repressed by the centripetal system of values linked to the epic genre like unity, Christianity, and obedience, but it is still...master" (163), even though the repressed subjectivity of the poet emerges through the characters of Tancredi, Rinaldo, Erminia...

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Second Puberty: The Later Years of W. B. Yeats Brought His Best Poetry, along with Personal Melodrama on an Epic Scale

Magazine article by Christopher Cahill; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 292, December 2003

Subjects:

W.B. Yeats: A Life Volume II: The Arch-Poet, 1915-1939 (Book)

Collections: Entire Library

...with Personal Melodrama on an Epic Scale. by Christopher...Yeats: A Life Volume II The Arch-Poet 1915-1939 by R.F. Foster Oxford...biography of the great Irish poet, occultist, and sucker for romantic...intensity of emotions. The Arch-Poet begins just at the lead-up to...
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'Titanic': The Ultimate Epic

Magazine article by Wes D. Gehring; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 126, March 1998

Subjects:

Cameron, James (Director), Filmmakers, Movie directors, Movie producers (Persons), Titanic (Motion picture)--Appreciation

Collections: Entire Library

...commercial success. When love and/or the romantic triangle are not the epic draw, it is often a fascinating real-life figure who drives the production, such as the complex poet/warrior in the Academy Award-winning "Patton" (1970), who believed he...
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Alice Notley's Epic Entry: "An Ecstasy of Finding Another Way of Being."

Magazine article by Susan Mccabe; The Antioch Review, Vol. 56, Summer 1998

Subjects:

Narrative poetry--Criticism and interpretation, Notley, Alice--Criticism and interpretation, Women authors--Criticism and interpretation, Women poets--Criticism and interpretation, Women writers--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...her double position as a woman poet: she reveals how quotation usually...ruptures the line, unsettling epic voice and legitimacy. Instead...do, might be something. The poet does not see herself as a mere...dreams. Alette, very much a new epic hero, declares: "Im killing...
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The Spell of History: How Shakespeare's War-Soaked 'Tetralogies'-In 3 Epic Stagings-Are Shedding New Light on Our Troubled Times

Magazine article by Stephen Nunns; American Theatre, Vol. 21, October 2004

Subjects:

Appel, Libby--Interviews, Elizabethan drama--Criticism and interpretation, English historical drama--Criticism and interpretation, Eustis, Oskar--Interviews, Gaines, Barbara--Interviews, Historical drama, English--Criticism and interpretation, Kaiser, Scott--Interviews, Shakespeare, William--Works, Theatrical directors--Interviews, Theatrical producers and directors--Interviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...brilliant to see the parallels. Now, this is not to say that George W. Bush is Henry V. But I do think that we can use a great poet like Shakespeare to understand in a complicated way the political dilemma were in. Of course, doing a project like this is...
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'To Uplift the Heart' - Nobel Laureate Henryk Sienkiewicz and Poland's National Epic

Magazine article by Eric P. Olsen; World and I, Vol. 15, June 2000

Subjects:

Authors, Polish--Biography, Polish writers--Biography, Sienkiewicz, Henryk--Biography

Collections: Entire Library

...had to look to expatriates such as the poet Adam Mickiewicz and pianist and composer...of Nazi and Soviet tyranny, Sienkiewiczs epic masterpiece has been largely overlooked...favorably disposed toward the unknown Polish epic, which had helped secure for its author...

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A Sideways Look at Milton; A sidewaysOur Only True Epic Poet: The Blind and Gout-Ridden Milton Dictating to His Daughter

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), January 14, 2008

Subjects:

Poets

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...A sidewaysOur Only True Epic Poet: The Blind and Gout-Ridden...spontaneously. Englands only truly epic poet, who was also a radical...were not lost on Dryden, Poet Laureate of the new regime...busymaking over Miltons epic of the Fall into rhyming...
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Epic Story of a Poet Who Never Existed

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), February 9, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Epic Story of a Poet Who Never Existed. Byline: ALLAN MASSIE...these were only fragments of an ancient epic, perhaps some 9,000 lines long. He had heard...Travelling with a cousin, the Gaelic poet Hugh Macpherson, he toured the western Highlands...
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An Ovid for Our Time: Ted Hughes' Take on the Roman Epic

Newspaper article by Kevin Driscoll; The Washington Times, December 28, 1997

Subjects:

Hughes, Ted

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...been aware, as the poet and translator David...poets career was an epic that might stand on...feat - even for a poet of Ovids considerable skills - for the epic, as Virgil so brilliantly...which the British poet laureate offers his...entirety of Ovids epic, has chosen only a...
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Epic Poetry

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), June 7, 2008

Subjects:

Thomas, Gwyn

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Epic Poetry. Byline: By JILL TUNSTALL AS National Poet of Wales, Professor Gwyn Thomas had...on to become a renowned scholar and poet. His commission for Hafod Eryri was one of his last as National Poet of Wales, a post he retired from last...
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Poetic Licence Turns Dylan's Tempestuous Love Life into an Epic Movie

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), June 13, 2008

Subjects:

Rhys, Matthew, Thomas, Dylan

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Tempestuous Love Life into an Epic Movie. Byline: Steffan Rhys...portrayal of the life of the poet, was screened in Wales for the...tempestuous relationship between the poet and his wife, Caitlin, while...Thomas never did. And while the poet has been played before, most...

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Trumbull, John , American Poet

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

TRUMBULL, JOHN , American poet 1750 1831, American poet, b. Westbury (now Watertown), Conn. He passed the entrance examinations...writing the bombastic An Elegy of the Times (1774) and the mock-epic burlesque of Tory politics, MFingal (1775 82). One of the...
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Apollonius Rhodius

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

APOLLONIUS RHODIUS ap lo ne s ro de s, fl. 3d cent. b.c., epic poet of Alexandria and Rhodes. He became librarian at Alexandria. His extant work, the Argonautica, is a Homeric imitation in four...
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Latin Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Andronicus , adapted from the Greek. The epic poet Gnaeus Naevius also wrote dramas...Vergil , the greatest of Latin epic poets, exemplifies a new atmosphere...his epodes, odes, and satires, the poet Horace brought the Latin lyric to...
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Greece

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...tribes, developed the city-state small settlements that grew into minor kingdoms. Homeric Greece (named for the great epic poet Homer ) was dependent on the agriculture of relatively unproductive fields but was already open to the sea. Although...
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Homer

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the first European poet. Works, Life, and Legends Two epic poems are attributed...all subsequent Western epic poetry. The "Homeric...the work of a single poet. Modern scholars are...agreed that there was a poet named Homer who lived...

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