Epic poetry

Epic poetry

An epic poem, or simply an epic, is a lengthy narrative poem typically about the extraordinary deeds of extraordinary characters who, in dealings with gods or other superhuman forces, gave shape to the mortal universe for their descendants.

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en* Albanian epic poetry * Arabic epic literature * Alpamysh * Calliope * Caribbean epic poetry * Chanson de geste * Duma * Epic fiction ** List of epic poems ** List of world folk-epics ** Epic fantasy ** Epic film ** Epic theatre * Hebrew and Jewish epic poetry * History painting * Indian epic poetry * Mock epic * Monomyth * Narrative poetry * National epic * National poet * Rimur * Serbian epic poetry
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Adam Mickiewicz
Aeneid
Albanian epic poetry
Albert Lord
Alliterative verse
Alpamysh
Ancient Greek
Apollonius of Rhodes
Arabic epic literature
Argonautica
Balkans
Baltic Finns
Beowulf
Bhagavata Purana
Blank verse
Calliope
Cantar de mio Cid
Caribbean poetry
Catalog of ships
Catalogue of Ships
Category:Adventure fiction
Category:Epic poetry
Category:Fiction forms
Category:Narrative poems
Catullus 64
Chanson de geste
Chanson de Roland
Chivalric romance
Classical antiquity
Dactylic hexameter
Dante
Dante Alighieri
Daredevils of Sassoun
Decasyllable
Delphic oracle
Derek Walcott
De Rerum Natura
Didactic poetry
Divine Comedy
Duma (epic)
Edward Fairfax
English Renaissance
Ennius
Enumeratio
Epic (genre)
Epic catalogue
Epic film
Epic of Gilgamesh
Epic of King Gesar
Epic of Sundiata
Epic theatre
Epithets
Epithets in Homer
Epyllion
Etruria
Evangeline
Ezra Pound
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Finnic languages
Finnsburg Fragment
French alexandrine
Gerusalemme liberata
Gerusalemme Liberata
Gilgamesh
Gnaeus Naevius
Hebrew and Jewish epic poetry
Hell
Hellenistic poetry
Heroic couplet
Heroism
Hesiod
Hexameter
High fantasy
History painting
Hocket
Homer
Homeric simile
Iambic tetrameter
Iliad
Indian epic poetry
Indo-European languages
In medias res
John Milton
Judgment of Paris
Kalevala
Kalevipoeg
Laisse
Latin
Line (poetry)
List of epic poems
List of world folk-epics
Literacy
Livius Andronicus
Longfellow
Luís de Camões
Lyric poetry
Mahabharata
Mahākāvya
Manimekalai
Meter (poetry)
Milman Parry
Mircea Cărtărescu
Mock epic
Mongols
Monomyth
Morgante
Muse
Mythology
Narrative poem
Narrative poetry
National epic
National poet
Neo-Sumerian Empire
Neoteric
Nibelungenlied
Odyssey
Omeros
Oral history
Oral tradition
Orlando Furioso
Orlando Innamorato
Orpheus
Os Lusíadas
Ottava rima
Ovid
Pan Tadeusz
Paradise Lost
Parallelism (rhetoric)
Parallels between Virgil's Aeneid and Homer's Iliad and Odyssey
Parataxis
Paterson (poem)
Performative verb
Phoebus
Poem of the Cid
Poetics (Aristotle)
Polish alexandrine
Proem
Purusharthas
Ramayana
Rāmāyaṇa
Recurring character
Repetition (rhetorical device)
Rhyme
Rhyme royal
Rhyme scheme
Rimur
Romance (love)
Saturnian (poetry)
Serbian epic poetry
Shahnameh
Shloka
Silappatikaram
Śloka
Societies
Song of Roland
Spenserian stanza
Stanza
Stichic
Sumer
Superhuman strength
Terza rima
The Cantos
The Faerie Queene
The Levant (poem)
Theme (literature)
Theogony
The Tale of the Heike
Torquato Tasso
Trochaic tetrameter
Trojan Battle Order
Underworld
Uruk
Verse (poetry)
Virgil
Walt Whitman
Wikt:epic
William Carlos Williams
Works and Days
Yao people
Onlinebooks
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Others
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Siday epiko
Söguljóð
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Wiracarita
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Епика
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Епос
Епска поезија
Епічна поезія
Эпас
Эпас (род літаратуры)
Эпопея
Эпос
Эпос
Эпос
Эпос
Эпос
Эпос
Эпос
Эпос
Эпос (род литературы)
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שירה אפית
حماسه
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رزمیہ
سوت‌خونی
شعر ملحمي
ملحمه
ھەڵبەستی پاڵەوانی
महाकाव्य
महाकाव्य
महाकाव्य (एपिक)
মহাকাব্য
ਮਹਾਕਾਵਿ
இதிகாசம்
ഇതിഹാസം
มหากาพย์
ეპოსი
叙事詩
史诗
서사시
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