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- Ancient Greek literature is famous for its epic and lyric poetry as well as its drama, both tragedy and comedy. }} ...793 bytes (114 words) - 17:47, 13 November 2021
- | Prose • Poetry |- !align="center" style="background:#ffffdd"|Discussion |- | Criticism • Theory |} 158207039 ...734 bytes (79 words) - 14:35, 2 March 2023
- literary texts, values, and exceptionalism. All epic poetry in Western literature ultimately derives from Homer. }} ...761 bytes (114 words) - 16:46, 14 November 2021
- His works include the acclaimed Homeric epic poem Omeros (1990). He spent his later career teaching in Western universities where he was accused ...645 bytes (93 words) - 16:32, 28 September 2023
- greatest poet and playwright. His plays and poetry are primarily based on the Vedas, the Rāmāyaṇa, the Mahābhārata and the Purāṇas. His surviving ...829 bytes (138 words) - 18:38, 26 January 2023
- Ovid and Virgil as one of the major epic poets of his times. to categorize. Although ostensibly an epic, Pharsalia is not a story ...9 KB (1,450 words) - 04:18, 4 November 2022
- * Epic * Novel * Poetry * Prose * Romance | heading3 = Lists | content3 = ...5 KB (491 words) - 18:19, 3 February 2023
- and is one of the chief works in the history of epic poetry. ... and any account of the history of epic poetry now routinely includes ...10 KB (1,538 words) - 15:46, 11 August 2023
- centuries, in order to prove that the poetry of the distant past was still ... Crane devoted himself to the task of writing a new kind of modern ...7 KB (1,109 words) - 20:59, 29 January 2022
- 2, 1724 – March 14, 1803) was a German epic and lyric poet. His more subjective ... from school, a remarkable oration on epic poetry—Abschiedsrede über ...11 KB (1,680 words) - 11:03, 11 April 2024
- of the Victorian era. Browning's poetry, like that of many other ... Browning, like other Victorian poets, also frequently wrote poetry ...10 KB (1,489 words) - 16:14, 13 February 2024
- become quintessential for later European poetry. In addition to his metrical ... rhapsodes, who made a living reciting poetry at religious festivals and ...8 KB (1,240 words) - 06:18, 12 August 2023
- Spenser's poetry, likewise, is more Romantic in the sense that ... Edmund Spenser, through his poetry, hoped to achieve a secure place ...12 KB (1,990 words) - 18:15, 12 February 2024
- in the realm of epigrammatic and elegaic poetry. Although he is not as well ... his youth it is believed that he taught poetry and music, and composed paeans ...7 KB (1,177 words) - 22:13, 29 January 2023
- Anglo-Saxon Poetry (or Old English Poetry) encompasses verse written ... in a wide variety of genres including epic poetry, Bible translations, historical ...17 KB (2,716 words) - 06:00, 28 July 2023
- to Epicurean philosophy, and his poetry, in keeping with his Epicurean ... turned away from the classical epic poetry in the tradition of Homer ...12 KB (1,947 words) - 16:18, 3 December 2023
- is an eighteenth century B.C.E. Akkadian epic, named after its human hero ... The oldest known copy of the epic of Atrahasis can be dated by its ...11 KB (1,791 words) - 19:31, 30 November 2021
- of such a life is reflected in the poetry he produced during a short ... in the currents of English literature and poetry, and often had prominent ...9 KB (1,501 words) - 16:52, 20 May 2024
- psychological complexity and depth. His poetry, much imitated during Late ... He soon abandoned work, however, to pursue poetry full-time. Fortunately for ...14 KB (2,130 words) - 06:01, 18 November 2022
- is particularly noted for his nature poetry, which, in contrast to much ... prolific and popular authors of religious poetry in the English language. ...9 KB (1,493 words) - 15:56, 7 May 2023
