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31Hebrew and Jewish epic poetry — Though an abundance of historical reminiscence and legend lay in the storehouse of Jewish literature, none of it was built into epic poems until relatively recently. Religious and secular poets, it is true, often treated of such subjects as… …
32Marmion (poem) — This article is about the poem. For other uses, see Marmion. Marmion is an epic poem by Walter Scott about the Battle of Flodden Field (1513). It was published in 1808. Scott started writing Marmion, his second major work, in November 1806. When… …
33Christ and Satan (Old English poem) — Christ and Satan is an Old English religious poem consisting of 729 lines in verse. It is located in a codex of Old English biblical poetry called the Junius Manuscript. The Junius Manuscript consists of two booklets, referred to as Book I and… …
34Indian epic poetry — is the epic poetry written in the Indian subcontinent. Written in Sanskrit, Kannada, Tamil and Hindi, it includes some of the oldest epic poetry ever created and some works form the basis of Hindu scripture. Sanskrit Epics The ancient Sanskrit… …
35Epigoni (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… …
36Minyas (poem) — Minyas (Greek: Μινυάς) was the title of an early Greek epic poem, probably dating to the 6th century BC, which is now lost and whose author is unknown. The very few fragments that survive (available in Greek in Davies and Bernabé s editions, and… …
37Thebaid (Greek poem) — The Thebaid ( el. Θηβαΐδα) is an Ancient Greek epic poem of uncertain authorship (see Cyclic poets) sometimes attributed by early writers to Homer. It told the story of the war between the brothers Eteocles and Polynices, and was regarded as… …
38Ulysses (poem) — Ulysses is a poem by the Victorian poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892), written in 1833 and published in 1842 in Tennyson s well received second volume of poems. An oft quoted poem, it is popularly used to illustrate the dramatic monologue… …
39Fasti (poem) — Tiepolo s Triumph of Flora (ca. 1743), a scene based on the Fasti, Book 4[1] The Fasti is a six book Latin poem by Ovid believed to have been left unfinished when the poet was exiled to T …
40Ruslan 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… …
