Search results for "Epic" - New World Encyclopedia
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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 ...17 KB (2,716 words) - 06:00, 28 July 2023
- the most significant English renderings of these epic poems since those of Alexander Pope earlier in the century, although later critics have faulted ...9 KB (1,493 words) - 15:56, 7 May 2023
- 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 ...18 KB (3,043 words) - 08:34, 5 February 2022
- quot; (the term includes comedy, tragedy, epic, and lyric poetry): All types of narrate events, he argues, but by differing means. He distinguishes ...16 KB (2,476 words) - 11:06, 10 March 2023
- * “You Can’t Dance” / “It’s Another Day” (Epic 50458) * “Gimme a Little Sign” / “Something You Can’t Buy” (Epic 50501) ...14 KB (2,110 words) - 21:05, 16 April 2023
- 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 ...19 KB (2,962 words) - 17:33, 30 April 2023
- *In his epic poem Paradise Lost, John Milton made Gabriel chief of ... *In the epic poem The Song of Roland, Gabriel instructs Frankish King ...11 KB (1,671 words) - 07:35, 15 April 2024
- popular with seventeenth century readers. His epic poem, La Sepmaine; ou, Creation du monde (1578), was said to have influenced John Milton's own ...10 KB (1,589 words) - 01:58, 26 June 2021
- reached the Mediterranean Sea after an epic 148 day journey, becoming ... * Bangs, Richard, and Pasquale Scaturro. Mystery of the Nile: The ...11 KB (1,678 words) - 18:33, 9 March 2023
- The Nagas make numerous appearances in the great Hindu epic called the Mahabharata, though their depiction tends to be negative, and they are ...17 KB (2,745 words) - 23:09, 10 November 2022
- killed their mother. After finishing his epic poem "Endymion," ... earliest major poem was the 1817 pastoral epic Endymion. The poem consists ...14 KB (2,196 words) - 06:06, 3 August 2022
- 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 ...15 KB (2,384 words) - 19:05, 16 April 2023
- 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 ...11 KB (1,560 words) - 04:04, 25 March 2023
- of these is the EPPIE award, given by EPIC since 2000. [http://www.epicauthors.com/eppies.html The EPPIE Awards], EPIC. Retrieved ...12 KB (1,743 words) - 21:37, 25 September 2020
- Epic poetry in Latin continued to be written and circulated well into the nineteenth century. John Milton and even Arthur Rimbaud got their first ...12 KB (1,801 words) - 12:38, 5 May 2024
- 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 ...16 KB (2,560 words) - 23:20, 30 April 2023
- scholar, writing political pamphlets, epic poems and odes for his patrons ... his princely patrons in panegyrics and epic poems, to abuse their enemies ...15 KB (2,444 words) - 04:47, 9 April 2024
- In 1340 Petrarch published his first large-scale work, Africa; an ... twelve pastoral poems; and the unfinished epic Africa. Petrarch also published ...11 KB (1,750 words) - 01:38, 24 November 2022
- credited with the composition of the epic poems the Iliad (Ἰλιάς ... texts, values, and exceptionalism. All epic poetry in Western literature ...27 KB (4,051 words) - 17:08, 14 November 2021
- in Greek mythology, and Utnapishtim in the Epic of Gilgamesh. ... ===Babylonian (Epic of Gilgamesh)=== In the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh ...29 KB (4,785 words) - 19:36, 24 May 2024
