an epic poem is a narrative poempoem
a poem (greek for creation) is an object in literature which is by itself a speech act, but as writing.
of great length about extraordinary or larger-than-life characters. ezra poundezra pound
ezra pound worked with t.s. eliot to establish modern.
said it was a poem including history. In a preface to paradise lost, c.s. lewis categorizes paradise lostparadise lost
paradise lost is an epic poem in english by john milton. suffused in allusions to bible and christian's myth and thinking, the poem covers in 12 books,1 the story of satan's fal... as a secondary epic, in the sense that it is a literary production rather than an oral tradition.
The epic, as Renaissance critics understood it, is a narrative poem of heroic action, but a special kind of narrative. It also has an encyclopaedic quality in it, distilling the essence of all the religious, philosophical, political, even scientific learnings of its time, and, if completely successful, the definitive poem for its age. – Angus Fletcher
the epic poem was and is primarily a form for high literature and many epic poems have become classicclassic
a classic is a work of art (e.g. a book) that belongs to a canon. A classic is revealed by age, esteem, effect, and complexity.
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Bene...s and part of the canoncanon
a canon (greek for ruler or measuring stick) is a technology that solves the problem of scoping the attention of a reading audience to a subset of edited, compiled, or anthologized work....