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- family and domestic matters. Through her poetry she eloquently expressed ... with seventeenth century readers. His epic poem, La Sepmaine; ou, Creation ...10 KB (1,589 words) - 01:58, 26 June 2021
- all the Icelandic sagas. As an author of poetry, history, and instructional ... Sturluson would compose almost all of his poetry. He quickly became known ...13 KB (2,143 words) - 05:13, 13 October 2022
- In addition to his contributions to poetry, Petrarch was famous as a ... In 1340 Petrarch published his first large-scale work, Africa; an ...11 KB (1,750 words) - 01:38, 24 November 2022
- Most of the epic poetry and tragedy has its roots in Ancient Greek ... === Epic poetry === [[Image:Homer_British_Museum.jpg|thumb|right|300px ...25 KB (4,056 words) - 17:49, 13 November 2021
- would form the three main pillars of epic poetry. His Aeneid is still one ... to seek to identify him with characters in his poetry. Virgil soon ...15 KB (2,361 words) - 20:33, 3 May 2023
- In 1761 Macpherson announced the discovery of an epic on the subject ... He also showed him manuscripts of Gaelic poetry, supposed to have been picked ...12 KB (1,859 words) - 16:03, 8 February 2023
- Aristotle, in Poetics, contrasted lyric poetry with drama and epic ... Neoteric poets who had turned away from epic poetry to more personal themes ...22 KB (3,069 words) - 23:36, 26 July 2021
- upsurge of highly experimental and daring poetry and fiction. He was particularly ... from the excessively abstract, often bleak poetry of his contemporaries, whom ...12 KB (1,901 words) - 15:54, 7 May 2023
- The Epic of King Gesar is the central epic poem of Tibet and much ... The epic is considered the longest literary work in the world. Although ...21 KB (3,483 words) - 19:06, 13 February 2024
- these ideals. Schlegel wrote fiction and poetry, but his most important works ... published an essay, On the Study of Greek Poetry, which was intended as the ...14 KB (2,106 words) - 07:21, 5 October 2022
- Butyrka Prison in 1909, he began writing poetry, but his poems were confiscated ... in the more narrative-based direction of epic poetry. It is primarily this ...15 KB (2,007 words) - 20:47, 3 May 2023
- Traditional epic poetry included improvisational moments where the ... There are also societies that value improvised poetry as a genre, ...10 KB (1,481 words) - 15:30, 4 February 2023
- memoirist. She is best known today for her poetry, and particularly her work ... feminist deconstruction of male-centered epic poetry which uses Euripides& ...19 KB (3,002 words) - 20:24, 24 December 2017
- The Kalevala is considered to be the national epic of Finland and ... The central plot of the epic traces the journeys of the bardic hero ...26 KB (4,103 words) - 07:01, 28 February 2023
- Mediterranean were very dangerous and the epic literature of the times reflected ... often used in fictitious narrative and poetry. Like many other aspects ...10 KB (1,575 words) - 22:34, 29 January 2023
- The Tale of the Heike (Heike monogatari, 平家物語) is an epic ... the stories were gathered together into an epic by an unknown author. The ...10 KB (1,591 words) - 17:35, 30 April 2023
- roughly with the earliest-recorded Greek poetry of Homer (eighth-seventh ... Epic poetry in Latin continued to be written and circulated well into ...12 KB (1,804 words) - 10:51, 19 December 2023
- development of Elizabethan and Jacobean poetry. Daniel's verse was ... afterward devoting himself to the study of poetry and philosophy. It is believed ...9 KB (1,447 words) - 02:58, 23 December 2022
- be Peri Bathous, or the Art of Sinking in Poetry (1728), a parodic guide on ... most popular poem. It is a mock-heroic epic, written to make fun of a ...16 KB (2,637 words) - 14:35, 18 July 2023
- poet. He was the author of the Shāhnāmeh (Epic of Kings), the national epic ... the particularity of language because his poetry has a universal, human appeal ...15 KB (2,389 words) - 17:20, 26 March 2024
