Concept
Epic poetry
Overview
lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily detailing heroic deeds
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This condition will be satisfied by poems on a smaller scale than the old epics, and answering in length to the group of tragedies presented at a single sitting. Epic poetry has, however, a great--a special--capacity for enlarging its dimensions, and we can see the reason. In Tragedy we cannot imitate several lines of actions carried on at one and the same time; we must confine ourselves to the action on the stage…
Aristotle, The Poetics of Aristotle
Names Epic poetry several times; the author is tied to Epic poetry in the knowledge graph.
Homer's poetry is what is called epic poetry, that is, it tells about heroes and heroic actions. The Iliad and Odyssey are the first and greatest of epic poems. In all ages since Homer's time, scholars have agreed in declaring them to be the finest poetic productions of human genius.
Michael Clarke, The Story of Troy
States what Epic poetry is; names Epic poetry.
Epic poetry, then, has been seen to agree with Tragedy to this extent, that of being an imitation of serious subjects in a grand kind of verse. It differs from it, however, (1) in that it is in one kind of verse and in narrative form; and (2) in its length--which is due to its action having no fixed limit of time, whereas Tragedy endeavours to keep as far as…
Aristotle, Aristotle on the art of poetry
The author is tied to Epic poetry in the knowledge graph; names Epic poetry twice.
Philosophers who discussed Epic poetry
- Hemachandra
- Hesiod
- Aristotle
- Walt Whitman
- Mikhail Bakhtin
- C. S. Lewis
- Aśvaghoṣa
- Ramon Llull
- Polemon of Athens
- Franciscus Patricius
Related ideas
- Bhagavata Purana
- Homer
- Hesiod
- Ancient Greek
- Indo-European languages
- Adam Mickiewicz
- John Milton
- Latin
- Literacy
- Mahabharata
- Western culture
- Odyssey
- Orpheus
- Poetry
- Western literature
- Myth
- Classical antiquity
- Merriam-Webster
- Narrative
- Works and Days
- De rerum natura
- Theogony
- Divine Comedy
- Walt Whitman
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Greek language.