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  • works in a wide variety of genres including epic poetry, Bible translations ... English poetry. It has achieved national epic status in British literary ...
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  • the most significant English renderings of these epic poems since those of Alexander Pope earlier in the century, although later critics have faulted ...
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  • had a string of incestuous affairs. In the epic Enki and Ninhursag, he and ... In the Sumerian epic Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta, an incantation ...
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  • quot; (the term includes comedy, tragedy, epic, and lyric poetry): All types of narrate events, he argues, but by differing means. He distinguishes ...
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  • * “You Can’t Dance” / “It’s Another Day” (Epic 50458) * “Gimme a Little Sign” / “Something You Can’t Buy” (Epic 50501) ...
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  • century (between 1140 and 1170). The epic poem is the first and most ... date of the first written version of the epic, is that (according to somewhat ...
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  • *In his epic poem Paradise Lost, John Milton made Gabriel chief of ... *In the epic poem The Song of Roland, Gabriel instructs Frankish King ...
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  • popular with seventeenth century readers. His epic poem, La Sepmaine; ou, Creation du monde (1578), was said to have influenced John Milton's own ...
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  • reached the Mediterranean Sea after an epic 148 day journey, becoming ... * Bangs, Richard, and Pasquale Scaturro. Mystery of the Nile: The ...
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  • The Nagas make numerous appearances in the great Hindu epic called the Mahabharata, though their depiction tends to be negative, and they are ...
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  • killed their mother. After finishing his epic poem "Endymion," ... earliest major poem was the 1817 pastoral epic Endymion. The poem consists ...
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  • plays a prominent role in the famous Hindu epic, the Ramayana, where, as the ... *Menon, Ramesh. The Ramayana: A Modern Retelling of the Great Indian ...
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  • first part of Shokholov's great Don epic (Tikhii Don / Тихий дон ... An epic novel, it is often compared to War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy ...
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  • of these is the EPPIE award, given by EPIC since 2000. [http://www.epicauthors.com/eppies.html The EPPIE Awards], EPIC. Retrieved ...
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  • Epic poetry in Latin continued to be written and circulated well into the nineteenth century. John Milton and even Arthur Rimbaud got their first ...
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  • the Enûma Elish, the Babylonian creation epic, she combines with Apsu (the ... can be seen from the opening lines of the epic where it is said that she ...
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  • scholar, writing political pamphlets, epic poems and odes for his patrons ... his princely patrons in panegyrics and epic poems, to abuse their enemies ...
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  • In 1340 Petrarch published his first large-scale work, Africa; an ... twelve pastoral poems; and the unfinished epic Africa. Petrarch also published ...
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  • credited with the composition of the epic poems the Iliad (Ἰλιάς ... texts, values, and exceptionalism. All epic poetry in Western literature ...
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  • in Greek mythology, and Utnapishtim in the Epic of Gilgamesh. ... ===Babylonian (Epic of Gilgamesh)=== In the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh ...
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