11) epic simile. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language:
Fourth Edition. 2000.
...An extended simile elaborated in great detail. Also called Homeric simile....
12) Epic and Love Elegy by Ovid. Heathcote William Garrod, comp. 1912. The
Oxford Book of Latin Verse
...Pieridum uates, non tua turba sumus. quid, si praeripiat flauae Venus arma Mineruae, uentilet accensas flaua Minerua faces? quis probet in siluis Cererem regnare...
13) II. Poetry. Homer and the Epic. By Professor Charles Burton Gulick.
1909-14. Lectures on the Harvard Classics. The Harvard Classics
...EPIC poetry might be described as that in which fewest poets have achieved distinction. Homer, Virgil, Milton are the names which occur to the mind when we try to...
14) §14. Amerind Epic; Hiawatha. XXXII. Non-English Writings II. Vol. 18. Later
National Literature, Part III. The Cambridge History of English and
American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...he showed more discrimination than most writers who have attempted to render Indian epics, in choosing a form that was very closely akin to the Amerind. 33 It is...
15) From "Orion: An Epic Poem" by Richard Henry Horne. Edmund Clarence Stedman,
ed. 1895. A Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895
...Catching the golden light. Now, while the peal Of the ascending chase told that the rout Still midway rent the thickets, suddenly Along the broad and sunny slope...
16) Preface to Cromwell. Paras. 31-60. Victor Hugo (1827). 1909-14. Famous
Prefaces. The Harvard Classics
...following therein the course pursued by the ancient polytheism and philosophy, the purely epic muse of the ancients had studied nature in only a single aspect, casting...
17) To the same: Poets of Epic and Poets of Love by Sextus Propertius.
Heathcote William Garrod, comp. 1912. The Oxford Book of Latin Verse
...Ardoris nostri magne poeta, iaces. tu caue nostra tuo contemnas carmina fastu: 25 saepe uenit magno faenore tardus Amor....
18) Ramayana. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Ramayana, (rama´yn) (KEY) [story of Rama], classical Sanskrit epic of India, probably composed in the 3d cent. B.C. Based on numerous legends, it is traditionally...
19) chansons de geste. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...chansons de geste, (shaNsoN´ d zhest) (KEY) [Fr.,=songs of deeds], a group of epic poems of medieval France written from the 11th through the 13th cent. Varying in...
20) XL. h. The Nibelungen Lied. Vols. I & II: Stories of Gods and Heroes.
Bulfinch, Thomas. 1913. Age of Fable
...ONE of the oldest myths of the Teutonic race is found in the great national epic of the Nibelungen Lied, which dates back to the prehistoric era when Wotan, Frigga,...
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