Search results for "Epic" - New World Encyclopedia
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- |Label = Epic |Associated_acts = George Jones ... producer Billy Sherrill, who signed her to Epic Records. ...18 KB (2,712 words) - 04:00, 27 February 2023
- Its mythical origins are described in Finland's national epic, Kalevala, where the magician Väinämöinen creates the first kantele from ...6 KB (959 words) - 02:48, 5 October 2022
- the Mahabharata. Many scholars believe the epic has its roots in actual historical ... The sixteenth book of the epic, Mausala Parva, describes the end of ...17 KB (2,751 words) - 21:52, 3 May 2023
- surviving works consist of three plays, two epic poems, and two shorter poems. ... ====Epic poems==== Kālidāsa is the author of two mahākāvyas, Kumārasambhava ...29 KB (4,344 words) - 06:24, 10 June 2024
- On this tour, the first two cantos of his epic poem Childe Harold's ... Byron's masterpiece, often called the epic of its time, has roots deep ...22 KB (3,443 words) - 02:41, 4 November 2022
- *The modernist poet H.D. wrote an epic poem Helen in Egypt from Helen's perspective.[http://www.amazon.com/Helen-Egypt-New-Directions-Paperbook/d ...14 KB (2,183 words) - 09:36, 25 June 2024
- for example. The Portuguese national epic, the Lusíadas of Luís Vaz ... Indian Ocean trade. The Portuguese national epic, the Lusíadas of Luís Vaz ...13 KB (2,082 words) - 14:38, 3 May 2023
- Beowulf (c. 700 C.E.) is a heroic epic poem, written in Old English, and easily the most important work of literature written in that language ...26 KB (4,193 words) - 10:54, 28 September 2023
- of Ithaca and the main hero in Homer's epic poem, the Odyssey. Odysseus ... The Odyssey contains the epic and mythic story of Odysseus' ten ...27 KB (4,422 words) - 23:55, 17 November 2022
- ; Immanent Art (1991); Traditional Oral Epic: The Odyssey, Beowulf and ... Return Song) and areas outside of military epic would come under investigation: ...37 KB (5,219 words) - 00:59, 18 November 2022
- The earliest references to Nagaland can be found in the Indian epic Mahābhārata. Several characters from the region, such as Princess Ulupi ...19 KB (2,820 words) - 23:09, 10 November 2022
- of non-dramatic poetry (dithyrambic, lyric and epic). Martin Banham ... been dominant. These included the Brechtian Epic theater, Artaud's Theater ...37 KB (5,637 words) - 17:32, 30 January 2024
- The chansons de geste, Old French for "songs of heroic deeds," are the epic poetry that appears at the dawn of French literature. The ...21 KB (3,315 words) - 01:43, 4 December 2023
- Empedocles is considered the last Greek philosopher to write in an epic verse and the surviving fragments of his teaching are from his two poems ...8 KB (1,150 words) - 18:28, 13 February 2024
- Nezāmī Ganjavī, considered the greatest romantic epic poet in Persian literature, who brought a colloquial and realistic style to the Persian epic ...19 KB (2,845 words) - 09:19, 10 March 2023
- Sita (Sanskrit: meaning "furrow") is one of the principal figures of the Ramayana, a famous Hindu scripture of epic proportions, which ...19 KB (3,150 words) - 22:35, 29 January 2023
- (1720). Edgar Quinet published his prose epic on the legend in 1833, making ... In Russia, the legend of the Wandering Jew appears in an incomplete ...18 KB (2,872 words) - 22:50, 3 May 2023
- style and use it to great effect for his epic work, The Cantos. to the composition of her "feminist epic" Helen in Egypt, a retelling ...19 KB (3,002 words) - 20:24, 24 December 2017
- India possesses a large body of heroic ballads and epic poetry preserved ... In the south of India, the Telugu the folk epic, The War of Palnadu ...32 KB (4,865 words) - 07:00, 5 September 2022
- composing On the Nature of Things, an epic poem, in six books, designed ... Bracciolini rediscovered Lucretius’ epic, On the Nature of Things, ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 19:06, 13 February 2024
