
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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- 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
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- Calliope
- Cantar de mio Cid
- Caribbean poetry
- Catalog of ships
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- Catullus 64
- Chanson de geste
- Chanson de Roland
- Chivalric romance
- Classical antiquity
- Dactylic hexameter
- Dante
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- Daredevils of Sassoun
- Decasyllable
- Delphic oracle
- Derek Walcott
- De Rerum Natura
- Didactic poetry
- Divine Comedy
- Duma (epic)
- Edward Fairfax
- English Renaissance
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- 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
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- French alexandrine
- Gerusalemme liberata
- Gerusalemme Liberata
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- Hebrew and Jewish epic poetry
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- Heroic couplet
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- History painting
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- Homer
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- Iambic tetrameter
- Iliad
- Indian epic poetry
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- List of epic poems
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- Meter (poetry)
- Milman Parry
- Mircea Cărtărescu
- Mock epic
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- Monomyth
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- Paradise Lost
- Parallelism (rhetoric)
- Parallels between Virgil's Aeneid and Homer's Iliad and Odyssey
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- Performative verb
- Phoebus
- Poem of the Cid
- Poetics (Aristotle)
- Polish alexandrine
- Proem
- Purusharthas
- Ramayana
- Rāmāyaṇa
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- Serbian epic poetry
- Shahnameh
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- 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
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- Virgil
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- William Carlos Williams
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