Epic poetry
Epic poetry
An epic (from the Ancient Greek adjective ἐπικός (epikos'pi), from
ἔπος (epos) "word, story, poem"[1] ) is a lengthy narrative poem,
ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic
deeds and events significant to a culture or nation.[2] Oral poetry may
qualify as an epic, and Albert Lord and Milman Parry have argued that
classical epics were fundamentally an oral poetic form. Nonetheless,
epics have been written down at least since the works of Virgil, Dante
Alighieri, and John Milton. Many probably would not have survived if
not written down. The first epics are known as primary, or original,
epics. One such epic is the Old English story Beowulf.[3] Epics that
attempt to imitate these like Milton's Paradise Lost are known as
literary, or secondary, epics. Another type of epic poetry is epyllion
(plural: epyllia), which is a brief narrative poem with a romantic or
mythological theme. The term, which means 'little epic', came in use in
Tablet containing a fragment of the Epic of
the nineteenth century. It refers primarily to the type of erotic and
Gilgamesh
mythological long elegy of which Ovid remains the master; to a lesser
degree, the term includes some poems of the English Renaissance,
particularly those influenced by Ovid. One suggested example of classical epyllion may be seen in the story of Nisus
and Euryalus in Book IX of Aeneid.
Oral epics or world folk epics
The first epics were products of preliterate societies and oral poetic traditions. In these traditions, poetry is
transmitted to the audience and from performer to performer by purely oral means.
Early twentieth-century study of living oral epic traditions in the Balkans by Milman Parry and Albert Lord
demonstrated the paratactic model used for composing these poems. What they demonstrated was that oral epics tend
to be constructed in short episodes, each of equal status, interest and importance. This facilitates memorization, as
the poet is recalling each episode in turn and using the completed episodes to recreate the entire epic as he performs
it.
Parry and Lord also showed that the most likely source for written texts of the epics of Homer was dictation from an
oral performance.
Epic: a long narrative poem in elevated stature presenting characters of high position in adventures
forming an organic whole through their relation to a central heroic figure and through their development
of episodes important to the history of a nation or race.
An attempt to deliminate nine main characteristics of an epic:[4]
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It opens in medias res.
The setting is vast, covering many nations, the world or the universe.
Begins with an invocation to a muse (epic invocation).
It starts with a statement of the theme.
Includes the use of epithets.
Contains long lists (epic catalogue).
7. Features long and formal speeches.
8. Shows divine intervention on human affairs.
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9. "Star" heroes that embody the values of the civilization.
The hero generally participates in a cyclical journey or quest, faces adversaries that try to defeat him in his journey
and returns home significantly transformed by his journey. The epic hero illustrates traits, performs deeds, and
exemplifies certain morals that are valued by the society the epic originates from. Many epic heroes are recurring
characters in the legends of their native culture.
Conventions of epics:
1. Praepositio: Opens by stating the theme or cause of the epic. This may take the form of a purpose (as in Milton,
who proposed "to justify the ways of God to men"); of a question (as in the Iliad, which Homer initiates by asking
a Muse to sing of Achilles' anger); or of a situation (as in the Song of Roland, with Charlemagne in Spain).
2. Invocation: Writer invokes a Muse, one of the nine daughters of Zeus. The poet prays to the Muses to provide
him with divine inspiration to tell the story of a great hero. (This convention is obviously restricted to cultures
influenced by European Classical culture. The Epic of Gilgamesh, for example, or the Bhagavata Purana would
obviously not contain this element).
3. In medias res: narrative opens "in the middle of things", with the hero at his lowest point. Usually flashbacks
show earlier portions of the story.
4. Enumeratio: Catalogues and genealogies are given. These long lists of objects, places, and people place the finite
action of the epic within a broader, universal context. Often, the poet is also paying homage to the ancestors of
audience members.
5. Epithet: Heavy use of repetition or stock phrases: e.g., Homer's "rosy-fingered dawn" and "wine-dark sea."
Literate societies have often copied the epic format The earliest surviving European examples are the Argonautica of
Apollonius of Rhodes and Virgil's Aeneid, which follow both the style and subject matter of Homer. Other obvious
examples are Nonnus' Dionysiaca, Tulsidas' Sri Ramacharit Manas.
Notable epic poems
This list can be compared with two others, national epic and
list of world folk-epics.[5]
Ancient epics (to 500)
• 20th to 10th century BC:
• Epic of Gilgamesh (Mesopotamian mythology)
• Atrahasis (Mesopotamian mythology)
• Enuma Elish (Babylonian mythology)
(The date of compositions of Babylonian epics is often hard to
determine, as they may survive on manuscripts that are much later
than the first composition. There is also the complication that they
underwent successive revisions and redactions.)
• 8th to 6th century BC:
• Iliad, ascribed to Homer (Greek mythology)
• Odyssey, ascribed to Homer (Greek mythology)
• Works and Days, ascribed to Hesiod (Greek mythology)
• Theogony, ascribed to Hesiod (Greek mythology)
• Catalogue of Women, ascribed to Hesiod (Greek mythology)
• The Shield of Heracles, ascribed to Hesiod (Greek
mythology)
The first page of the Beowulf manuscript
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• 5th to 4th century BC:
• Mahābhārata, ascribed to Vyasa (Hindu mythology) (5th to 1st century BC)
• Ramayana, ascribed to Valmiki (Hindu mythology) (5th century BC to 4th century AD)
• 3rd century BC:
• Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes
• 2nd century BC:
• Annales by Quintus Ennius (Roman History)
• 1st century BC:
• Aeneid by Virgil (Latin mythology)
• De rerum natura by Lucretius (Latin Literature, Epicurean philosophy)
• 1st century AD:
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Metamorphoses by Ovid (Latin mythology)
Pharsalia by Lucan (Roman history)
Punica by Silius Italicus (Roman history)
Argonautica by Gaius Valerius Flaccus (Roman poet, Greek mythology)
Thebaid and Achilleid by Statius (Roman poet, Greek mythology)
• 2nd century:
• Buddhacarita by Aśvaghoṣa (Indian epic poetry)
• Saundaranandakavya by Aśvaghoṣa (Indian epic poetry)
• 2nd to 5th century:
• The Five Great Epics of Tamil Literature:
• Silappadikaram by Prince Ilango Adigal
• Manimekalai by Seethalai Saathanar
• Civaka Cintamani by Tirutakakatevar
• Kundalakesi by a Buddhist poet
• Valayapati by a Jaina poet
• 3rd to 4th century:
• Posthomerica by Quintus of Smyrna
• 4th century:
• Evangeliorum libri by Juvencus
• Kumārasambhava by Kālidāsa (Indian epic poetry)
• Raghuvaṃśa by Kālidāsa (Indian epic poetry)
• De Raptu Proserpinae by Claudian
• 5th century:
• Argonautica Orphica by Anonymous
• Dionysiaca by Nonnus
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Medieval epics (500-1500)
• 7th century:
• Táin Bó Cúailnge (Old Irish)
• Bhaṭṭikāvya, Sanskrit courtly epic based on the Rāmāyaṇa and the Aṣṭādhyāyī of Pāṇini
• Kiratarjuniya by Bharavi, Sanskrit epic based on an episode in the Mahabharata
• Shishupala Vadha by Magha, Sanskrit epic based on another episode in the Mahabharata
• 8th to 10th century:
• Beowulf (Old English)
• Waldere, Old English version of the story told in Waltharius (below), known only as a brief fragment
• David of Sasun (Armenian)
• 9th century:
• Bhagavata Purana (Sanskrit) "Stories of the Lord", based on earlier sources
• 10th century:
• Shahnameh (Persian literature; details Persian legend and history from prehistoric times to the fall of the
Sassanid Empire)
• Waltharius by Ekkehard of St. Gall (Latin); about Walter of Aquitaine
• 11th century:
• Taghribat Bani Hilal (Arabic); see also Arabic epic literature
• Ruodlieb (Latin), by a German author
• Digenis Akritas (Greek); about a hero of the Byzantine Empire
• Epic of King Gesar (Tibetan)
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Chanson de Roland (Old French)
The Knight in the Panther Skin by Shota Rustaveli
Alexandreis by Walter of Châtillon (Latin)
De bello Troiano and the lost Antiocheis by Joseph of Exeter
Carmen de Prodicione Guenonis, version of the story of the Song of Roland in Latin
Architrenius by John of Hauville, Latin satire
Liber ad honorem Augusti by Peter of Eboli, narrative of the conquest of Sicily by Henry VI, Holy Roman
Emperor (Latin)
• The Tale of Igor's Campaign and Bylinas (11th-19th centuries)
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Nibelungenlied (Middle High German)
Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach - (Middle High German)
Brut by Layamon (Early Middle English)
Chanson de la Croisade Albigeoise ("Song of the Albigensian Crusade"; Occitan)
Antar (Arabic); see also Arabic epic literature
Sirat al-Zahir Baibars (Arabic); see also Arabic epic literature
Epic of Sundiata
El Cantar de Mio Cid, Spanish epic of the Reconquista (Old Spanish)
De triumphis ecclesiae by Johannes de Garlandia (Latin)
Gesta Regum Britanniae by William of Rennes (Latin)
Jewang ungi by Yi Seung-hyu ("Rhymed Chronicles of Sovereigns"; 1287 Korea)
• 14th century:
• Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
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• Confessio Amantis by John Gower (c. 1350)
• Cursor Mundi by an anonymous cleric (c. 1300)
• Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy) by Dante Alighieri (Italian)
• Africa by Petrarch (Latin)
• The Tale of the Heike (Japanese epic war tale)
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Alliterative Morte Arthure (Middle English)
Orlando innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo (1495)
Shmuel-Bukh (Old Yiddish chivalry romance based on the Biblical book of Samuel
Mlokhim-Bukh (Old Yiddish epic poem based on the Biblical Books of Kings)
Book of Dede Korkut
Modern epics (from 1500)
• 16th century:
• Orlando furioso by Ludovico Ariosto (1516)
• Os Lusíadas by Luís de Camões (c.1555)
• La Araucana by Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga (1569–1589)
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La Gerusalemme liberata by Torquato Tasso (1575)
Ramacharitamanasa (based on the Ramayana) by Goswami Tulsidas (1577)
Lepanto by King James VI of Scotland (1591)
Matilda by Michael Drayton (1594)
The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser (1596)
• 17th century:
• The Barons' Wars by Michael Drayton (1603; early version 1596 entitled Mortimeriados)
• The Purple Island by Phineas Fletcher (1633)
• Szigeti veszedelem, also known under the Latin title Obsidionis Szigetianae, a Hungarian epic by Miklós Zrínyi
(1651)
• Davideis by Abraham Cowley (c. 1668)
• Paradise Lost by John Milton (1667)
• Paradise Regained by John Milton (1671)
• Wojna chocimska by Wacław Potocki (1672)
• Prince Arthur by Richard Blackmore (1695)
• King Arthur by Richard Blackmore (1697)
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Eliza by Richard Blackmore (1705)
Columbus by Ubertino Carrara (1714)
Redemption by Richard Blackmore (1722)
Henriade by Voltaire (1723)
La Pucelle d'Orléans by Voltaire (1756)
Alfred by Richard Blackmore (1723)
Utendi wa Tambuka by Bwana Mwengo (1728)
Leonidas by Richard Glover (1737)
Epigoniad by William Wilkie (1757)
The Highlander; by James Macpherson (1758)
• The Works of Ossian by James MacPherson (1765)
• O Uraguai by Basílio da Gama (1769)
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Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire** by Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill (1773)
Der Messias by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1773)
Rossiada by Mikhail Matveyevich Kheraskov (1771–1779)
Vladimir by Mikhail Matveyevich Kheraskov (1785)
Athenaid by Richard Glover (1787)
Joan of Arc by Robert Southey (1796)
Hermann and Dorothea by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1797)
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The Tale of Kiều by Nguyễn Du (1800?)
Thalaba the Destroyer by Robert Southey (1801)
The Lay of the Last Minstrel by Walter Scott (1805)
Madoc by Robert Southey (1805)
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (part 1 1806, part 2 c. 1833)
Columbiad by Joel Barlow (1807)
Milton: a Poem by William Blake (1804–1810)
Marmion (poem) by Walter Scott (1808)
The Lady of the Lake (poem) by Walter Scott (1810)
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The Vision of Don Roderick by Walter Scott (1811)
The Curse of Kehama by Robert Southey (1810)
Rokeby and The Bridal of Triermain by Walter Scott (1813)
Queen Mab (poem) by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1813)
Roderick, the Last of the Goths by Robert Southey (1814)
The Lord of the Isles by Walter Scott (1813)
Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1815)
The Revolt of Islam (Laon and Cyntha) by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1817)
Harold the Dauntless by Walter Scott (1817)
Endymion, (1818) by John Keats
The Battle of Marathon by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1820)
Hyperion, (1818), and The Fall of Hyperion, (1819) by John Keats
L'Orléanide, Poème national en vingt-huit chants, by Philippe-Alexandre Le Brun de Charmettes (1821)
Phra Aphai Mani by Sunthorn Phu (1821 or 1823–1845)
Promessi Sposi by Alessandro Manzoni
Don Juan by Lord Byron (1824)
Prometheus Bound by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1833)
Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewicz (1834)
Krst pri Savici by France Prešeren (1835)
The Seraphim by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1838)
Smrt Smail-age Čengića by Ivan Mažuranić (1846)
Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1847)
Gorski Vijenac by Petar Petovity Njegosh
Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot (1849 Finnish mythology)
Kalevipoeg by Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald (1853 Estonian mythology)
The Prelude by William Wordsworth
Song of Myself by Walt Whitman (1855)
• The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1855)
• La Fin de Satan by Victor Hugo (written between 1855 and 1860, published in 1886)
• La Légende des Siècles (The Legend of the Centuries) by Victor Hugo (1859–1877)
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The Ring and the Book by Robert Browning (1868-69)
Martín Fierro by José Hernández (1872)
Idylls of the King by Alfred Lord Tennyson (c. 1874)
Clarel by Herman Melville (1876)
L'Atlàntida by Jacint Verdaguer (1877)
The City of Dreadful Night by James Thomson (B.V.) (finished in 1874, published in 1880)
Eros and Psyche by Robert Bridges (1885)
Canigó by Jacint Verdaguer (1886)
Lāčplēsis ('The Bear-Slayer') by Andrejs Pumpurs (1888; Latvian Mythology)
The Wanderings of Oisin by William Butler Yeats (1889)
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Lahuta e Malcís by Gjergj Fishta (composed 1902-1937)
Drake: An English Epic (1905–1908), The Torch-Bearers (1917–1930) by Alfred Noyes
The Ballad of the White Horse by G. K. Chesterton (1911)
Mensagem by Fernando Pessoa (composed 1913-1934)
The Cantos by Ezra Pound (composed 1915-1969)
The Hashish-Eater; Or, The Apocalypse of Evil by Clark Ashton Smith (1920)
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The Bridge by Hart Crane (1930)
Kurukshetra (1946), Rashmirathi (1952), Urvashi (1961), Hunkar by Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar'
Savitri by Aurobindo Ghose (1950)
The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel by Nikos Kazantzakis (Greek verse, composed 1924-1938)
Dymer by C. S. Lewis (1926)
A Cycle of the West by John Neihardt (composed 1921-1949)
"A" by Louis Zukofsky (composed 1928-1968)
Paterson by William Carlos Williams (composed c.1940-1961)
Victory for the Slain by Hugh John Lofting (1942)
The Maximus Poems by Charles Olson (composed 1950-1970)
Libretto for the Republic of Liberia by Melvin B. Tolson (1953)
Aniara by Harry Martinson (composed 1956)
Mountains and Rivers Without End by Gary Snyder (composed 1965-1996)
Helen in Egypt by H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1974)
The Changing Light at Sandover by James Merrill (composed 1976-1982)
The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You by Frank Stanford (published 1977)
The Legend of Te Tuna by Richard Adams (published 1982)
Genesis: An Epic Poem by Frederick Turner (1988)
Omeros by Derek Walcott (1990)
The Levant by Mircea Cărtărescu (1990)
Astronautilía Hvězdoplavba by Jan Křesadlo (1995)
The Descent of Alette by Alice Notley (1996)
Cheikh Anta Diop: Poem for the Living by Mwatabu S. Okantah (1997)
The Dream of Norumbega: Epic on the U.S. by James Wm. Chichetto (c. 1990; p. 2000- )
Portvcale by Tiago Lameiras (c. 2009; p. 2010)
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Other epics
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Exact Epitome of the Four Monarchies by Anne Bradstreet (1650)[6]
The Conquest of Canaan by Timothy Dwight IV (1785)
The Anarchiad by David Humphreys, Joel Barlow, John Trumbull, and Lemuel Hopkins (1786–87)
The Anathemata by David Jones (1952)
The Adagios Quartet by Judith Fitzgerald (poetry 1999-2009)
Canto general by Pablo Neruda
Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot
Der Ring des Nibelungen by Richard Wagner (opera, composed 1848-1874)
Parsifal by Richard Wagner (opera, composed 1880-1882)
Fredy Neptune: A Novel in Verse by Les Murray
References
• http://www.poetry-portal.com/styles10.html
• http://members.optushome.com.au/kazoom/poetry/epic.html
• http://www.findpoetry.com/searchnow/Epic/
Notes
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http:/ / www. etymonline. com/ index. php?term=epic
Michael Meyer, The Bedford Introduction to Literature, Bedford/St. Martin's, 2005, p2128. ISBN 0-312-41242-8
"epic". The Columbia Encyclopedia (6 ed.). New York: Columbia University Press. 2004.
http:/ / homepage. mac. com/ mseffie/ assignments/ beowulf/ epic. html
According to that article, world folk epics are those that are not just literary masterpieces, but also an integral part of the world view of a
people, originally oral, later written down by one or several authors.
[6] Guerber, H.A. (1913). The Book of the Epic (http:/ / www. gutenberg. org/ etext/ 13983). Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott. p. 465. . "a work
some authorities rank as the first American epic"
External links
• Clay Sanskrit Library (http://www.claysanskritlibrary.org) publishes classical Indian literature, including the
Mahabharata and Ramayana, with facing-page text and translation. Also offers searchable corpus and
downloadable materials.
• Humanities Index (http://humx.org/vocabulary/epic-poetry) has notes on epic poetry.
• World of Dante (http://www.worldofdante.org/) Multimedia website that offers Italian text of Divine Comedy,
Allen Mandelbaum's translation, gallery, interactive maps, timeline, musical recordings, and searchable database
for students and teachers.
Bibliography
• Jan de Vries: Heroic Song and Heroic Legend ISBN 0-405-10566-5
• Cornel Heinsdorff: Christus, Nikodemus und die Samaritanerin bei Juvencus. Mit einem Anhang zur lateinischen
Evangelienvorlage, Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte 67, Berlin/New York 2003, ISBN
3-11-017851-6
• Fallon, Oliver. Bhatti’s Poem: The Death of Rávana (Bhaṭṭikāvya). New York 2009: Clay Sanskrit Library, (http:/
/www.claysanskritlibrary.org/). ISBN 978-0-8147-2778-2, ISBN 0-8147-2778-6
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