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- Piping the Epic A data mashup which tries to bring together current news on epic poetry from the various corners of the Internet.
- Lascelles Abercrombie's archaic but occasionally insightful 1914 The Epic, through Project Gutenberg; at least one good observation: "Rigid definitions in literature are, however, dangerous."
- The Long Poem: Innovative Genre or Contradiction in Terms. A bibliography of key articles compiled by Wolfram R. Keller.
- Epic Memory What looks to be an engaging project in "questions of medium, memory and performance in relation to the percolation of the past through located poetics" In other words, perhaps, "how does the epic form (meter, rhythm and formula) facilitate the remembrance of past events in an oral tradition? This easily segues into questions such as what effect do other media whether they are text based, aural modes of record, film, etc. have upon epic remembrance? "
- How to Write an Epic Poem Just in case you were wondering: "Confront your hero with dangerous monsters and other incredible adventures. Include vivid and explicit descriptions of warfare (particularly weapons and combat)."
- The Genre of Performative Epic Under "epic," a "quasi manifesto" from the poet of Plains of Abraham, a poem in English, inspired by Greek and Sanskrit epic.
- The
Heroic Poem, or The Epic: A Family Rather Than a Genre Useful observations,
but unfortunately Philip Allingham does not address the important theoretical
claim made in the title
- Notes
on Heroic Poetry: The Primary and Secondary Epic Useful notes
from Philip Allingham at the Victorian Web
- The Diversity of Oral Epics Some useful notes from the Folklore Fellows
- Mnemonic
Devices in the Epic Poetry of Primary Oral Cultures Sarah Becker
briefly reviews key ideas of Havelock and Ong
- Top Ten American Epic Poems of the 20th Century About.com's idiosyncratic grouping , though it's good to see Loy and Notley on the list
- Top Five More A touch odd how many of these are published in the last three years of the 20th Century.
- Poetry
Portal: Epic Poetry Part
of the broad range offered by the Poetry Portal, this provides thumbnail
descriptions and useful, if sometimes outdated, links
- Epic
Poetry A useful but limited site offered by Wikipedia,
including some odd links and notions (e.g., "epic versus narrative")
- Epic Poetry Yahoo Directory, mainly to individual texts or sites
- Basic
Definitions A few words cribbed from the Handbooks on
epic, epic formulas, epic similes
- Epic
Reviews Brief reviews, annotations, and/or descriptions
of epic scholarship. An ongoing enterprise
- Poetry
from Beowulf to the Present: Forgotten Ground Regained Nicely focused
on alliterative and accentual meters, with a good range of poems and
excellent resources
- Epic
Poetry Quiz Bob Yantosca's questions on first, last, random lines
- Classics
160: Epic Course materials, Homer to Milton
- Literary
Resources on the Net Jack Lynch's extensive annotated listing of
literary and scholarly pages
- The
Listening Booth / The Academy of American Poets Pound performing
Canto I; HD reading from Helen in Egypt; much more
- Center
for Studies in Oral Tradition All back issues now online and accessible in this new version of the site.
- "Poets
as Teachers" by John P. Van Mater Essay from Sunrise
Magazine on the import and vitality of epic poetry
- Lord
Raglan's Scale Heroic life patterns according to the enthusiastic
author of The Hero (1936). The site's author even includes a reading
of her cat, Tatsu, as archetypal hero
- John Dryden's Discourses on Satire and Epic Poetry Significant 1667 essay through Gutenberg, perhaps best remembered for its disparaging of Milton's then-fresh use of blank verse.
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