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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

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Epic Poetry--Paraphrases, Tales, Etc

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Iseult in, 292 Corsair, The . Epic poem by Byron, 270 COWLEY, ABRAHAM. English poet, 270 CRASSUS. Triumvir with...Creacion del Munde . Spanish epic by Azevedo, 126 CRETE. Island...178 Crist . Early British epic poem, 266 Cronica rimada...
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The Theory of the Epic in England, 1650-1800

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

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

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...gives considerable space to the epic. He recognizes the paramount...also suggests that the French poet may find valuable material in...makes clear his belief that the epic poet must be a moral philosopher...aware of the front rank of the epic poet, and, like Du Bellay...
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Heroic Fiction: The Epic Tradition and American Novels of the Twentieth Century

Book by Leonard Lutwack; Southern Illinois University Press, 1971

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American Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism, Epic Literature--History And Criticism, Influence (Literary, Artistic, Etc.)

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...clownish figure. But though the poet-heroes fail to write their epics, their novelist-creators...produce the great American epic is itself the subject of these...in turn are themselves prose epics. In making their poets fail and then going on themselves to write epic novels, Norris, Lockridge...
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The Challenge of Epic: Allusive Engagement in the Dionysiaca of Nonnus

Book by Robert E. C. Shorrock; Brill, 2001

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Allusions In Literature, Dionysus (Greek Deity) In Literature, Epic Poetry, Greek--History And Criticism, Intertextuality, Nonnus--Of Panopolis--Dionysiaca

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...of Dionysus that we now turn. he Poet of Dionysus L Epic Beginnings 1-12 1. Poetic doublets In the first book of Nonnus epic we are introduced to two charac...about the ways and means of writing epic poetry, and form part of the evolutionary...
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Epic and Romance: Essays on Medieval Literature

Book by W. P. Ker; Macmillan, 1897

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Epic Poetry--History And Criticism, Fiction, Literature, Medieval--History And Criticism, Romances--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

EPIC AND ROMANCE Epic does not require a magnificent...as those of the artificial epics Aeneid, Gerusalemme Liberata...patriotism, etc. 21 True Epic begins with a dramatic plot...historical fact 28 The epic poet is free in the conduct of...

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Journal Articles on: epic poet

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Samuel Sheppard's Faerie King and the Fragmentation of Royalist Epic

Journal article by Kirsten Tranter; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 49, 2009

Subjects:

Epic poetry--Criticism and interpretation, Epics--Criticism and interpretation, Faerie King (Poem)--Criticism and interpretation, Royalty--Portrayals, Sheppard, Sam--Criticism and interpretation, Sheppard, Sam--Works

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...the elevated poetry of epic. In the proems introduction...Spenserian defense against the poets imagined, hostile audience...well with the exhausted epic poets desire to finish his own...creation of the world to an epic poet finishing his work: Like...
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Goethe's Faust and European Epic: Forgetting the Future

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

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

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...and competing with, earlier epic writers: "the skill with which an epic poet met the challenge of simultaneously...reduction of the entirety of the epic system and the fate of that...modern world" since here the poet is no longer "filled with...
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Herbert F. Tucker, Epic: Britain's Heroic Muse 1790-1910

Journal article by Jonathan V. Farina; Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 39, 2008

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Books--Book reviews, Epic: Britain's Heroic Muse 1790-1910 (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...the epic, "The Very Idea: Epic in the Head," in the second...chapter, "On Calliopes Jalopy: Epic Rebuilt 1790-1800," Tucker...theoretic wind" blew "strongly in epics favor," albeit "through...Ranging over a "a freemasonry of poet-tinkers" that includes William...Gifford, with his 1791 mock-epic Baviad, Blake, Southey...and apocalyptic forms. These poets tested the limits of epic by...
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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

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

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...text that he wrote and that the epic poet has written for us. Hence...discussion of the relationship of the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Homeric epics, especially the Odyssey, will...to-date translation of the Epic in its various Akkadian versions...
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From Many Gods to One: Divine Action in Renaissance Epic

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

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

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...Divine Action in Renaissance Epic. by Daniel Javitch Tobias Gregory...challenge that Renaissance epic poets faced when they could no longer...system available to the ancient poets but had to represent divine...structure offered the ancient epic poets. To begin with, the community...problem for the Christian epic poet than for Homer or Virgil. Furthermore...

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Magazine Articles on: epic poet

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The Persian Epic of Kings: Millennium of the Poet Ferdowsi

Magazine article by Rasoul Sorkhabi; World and I, Vol. 26, January 2011

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Ferdowsi--Criticism and interpretation, Ferdowsi--Works, Persian literature--Criticism and interpretation, Poetry--Criticism and interpretation, The Book of Kings (Poem)--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

The Persian Epic of Kings: Millennium of the Poet Ferdowsi. by Rasoul Sorkhabi...thousand years ago), the Persian poet Ferdowsi completed his magnum...life is dear. --The Persian poet Saadi, Bustan (The Orchard...if not the topmost) Persian poets of all time. In Irans capital...
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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

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

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

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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

Alice Notleys Epic Entry: "An Ecstasy of Finding...who died in 1983), both poets positioned as belonging to the...generation of New York School poets (among their poetic predecessors...as this "school" is, its poets (including Notley) tend to...her double position as a woman poet: she reveals how quotation...
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Tome of the Unknown Soldier: David Jones Was Praised by Eliot and Auden, Yet He Remains a Marginal Figure. His Epic Prose Poem about the First World War Is a Masterpiece

Magazine article by David Wheatley; New Statesman (1996), Vol. 139, August 16, 2010

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Jones, David (British writer)--Criticism and interpretation, Jones, David (British writer)--Works, Poets--Criticism and interpretation, Poets--Works

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...Remains a Marginal Figure. His Epic Prose Poem about the First World...posterity has consigned the poet-painter David Jones (1895...ultra-allusive, polyglot epic looks more quixotic than ever...while noting the Anglo-Welsh poets earthier attachments. If Auden...work of Jones the great war poet does not sit easily in this...
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Keeper of the Keys : Frederic Mistral, Noble Poet of Provence

Magazine article by Timothy Rake; World and I, Vol. 18, December 2003

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Authors, French, Authors, French--Quotations, Authors, French--Works, French writers--Quotations, French writers--Works, Mistral, Frederic--Quotations, Mistral, Frederic--Works, Poets--Biography, Provence, France

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...introduced to the great French poet Lamartine. The aging Lamartine...consumed with work on a long epic poem. He invited the 25-year...to the world, "Today a grand epic poet is born. There is a virtue...success, perhaps because the epic tale of ill-fated lovers touched...

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Newspaper Articles on: epic poet

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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, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Milton; A sidewaysOur Only True Epic Poet: The Blind and Gout-Ridden...Byline: CLAIRE HARMAN Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer and Patriot by...spontaneously. Englands only truly epic poet, who was also a radical polemicist...Charles", or that pastoral poets were"not just concerned with...
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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, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Epic Story of a Poet Who Never Existed. Byline...Goethe, the greatest of German poets, thought it the equal of...Marischal College, Aberdeen. A poet, he always wanted to become...only fragments of an ancient epic, perhaps some 9,000 lines...
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Culture: Northern Bard of Sixties Still Inspires; Lee Hall, above, the Writer of Billy Elliot and the Pitmen Painters, Explains His Fascination with Poet Basil Bunting

Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), February 28, 2009

Subjects:

Bunting, Basil, Painters, Painters (Artists), Pickard, Tom, Poets

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

...ordinary people and world class poets started appearing. But Bunting...1964 from a young Newcastle poet and admirer, Tom Pickard, reviving his career. Wrote his epic poem, Briggflatts, in 1965...glass, fooling with American poet Allen Ginsberg in Newcastle...Newcastle with, from left, fellow poets Barry MacSweeney, Stuart Montgomery...
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Links to a Poet and They Want All to Know It; Lord Tennyson's Relationship with Brancepeth Is Celebrated

Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), November 6, 2009

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Poets

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

Links to a Poet and They Want All to Know It...was Queen Victorias favourite poet whose works are among the worlds...planning to highlight the former Poet Laureates links to their community...that Tennyson wrote some of his epic love poem Come into the Garden...
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ROGER TO BRIEF M&S SHOPPERS; Poet Is to Pen Verses on Shop Plans

Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), April 23, 2009

Subjects:

McGough, Roger, Poets

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

...ROGER TO BRIEF M S SHOPPERS; Poet Is to Pen Verses on Shop Plans...centre store. In the past the poet has been asked to create words...penned the start and finish of an epic 800-line ode to his home city...Street store, in rhyme. The poet - and former member of The Scaffold...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: epic poet

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Trumbull, John , American Poet

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

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

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...from the Greek. The epic poet Gnaeus Naevius also wrote...and Julius Caesar , the poets Lucretius and Catullus...greatest of Latin epic poets, exemplifies a new atmosphere...odes, and satires, the poet Horace brought the Latin...Among the most original poets were Martial and Juvenal...
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Greece

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, 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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Apollonius Rhodius

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, 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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Ariosto, Ludovico

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...LUDOVICO loodove ko aryos to, 1474 1533, Italian epic and lyric poet. As a youth he was a favorite at the court of Ferrara...Furioso, published in its final form in 1532. This epic treatment of the Roland story, theoretically a sequel...

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