epic+poem
91Elene (poem) — Elene is the longest of Cynewulf’s four signed poems. It is the fifth of six poems appearing in the Vercelli manuscript. The poem is the first English account of the finding of the Holy Cross by Saint Helena, mother of Emperor Constantine.It is… …
92Ruslan and Ludmila (poem) — Ruslan and Ludmila ( ru. Руслан и Людмила; Ruslan i Lyudmila ) is a poem by Alexander Pushkin, published in 1820. It is written as an epic fairy tale consisting of a dedication (посвящение [This and all parenthetical glosses hereafter refer to… …
93John Brown's Body (poem) — John Brown s Body (1928) is an epic American poem written by Stephen Vincent Benet. Its title references the radical abolitionist John Brown, who raided Harpers Ferry in West Virginia in the fall of 1859. He was captured and hanged later that… …
94Endymion (poem) — Endymion is a poem by John Keats first published in 1818. Beginning famously with the line A thing of beauty is a joy for ever , Endymion, like many epic poems in English (including John Dryden s translations from Virgil and Alexander Pope s… …
95The Wild Party (poem) — The Wild Party is a narrative poem. Written in the classical epic style, it is Joseph Moncure March s first published work.Upon its 1928 publication, the poem was widely banned, first in Boston, for having content viewed as wild as the titular… …
96heroic poem — noun Date: 1693 an epic or a poem in epic style …
97Epigoni (epic) — Epigoni (Greek: Επίγονοι, Epigonoi The Progeny ) was an early Greek epic, a sequel to the Thebaid and therefore grouped in the Theban cycle. Some ancient authors seem to have considered it a part of the Thebaid and not a separate poem. [For… …
98heroic poem — a poem written in an epic style using lines of iambic pentameter. [1685 95] * * * …
99heroic poem — hero′ic po′em n. pro lit. a poem written in an epic style using lines of iambic pentameter • Etymology: 1685–95 …
100Homeric epic — The Homeric epic refers to The Iliad or The Odyssey , or else to both together, a pair of epic poems written by the possibly mythical ancient Greek author Homer about the Trojan War and its aftermath. The term may also be used metaphorically to… …
