During their short residence at Spa he sketched the plan of an epic poem, on the discovery of Britain by the Prince of Tyre.
An epic poemin forty-six cantos, by Ariosto, which occupied his leisure for eleven years, and was published in 1516.
Ralph continued to write, and, from time to time, troubled his friend with long extracts from an epic poem, which he was then composing, requesting his remarks and corrections.
I have already told you that in my opinion the destruction of Jerusalem is the only subject now left for an epic poem of the highest kind.
The destruction of Jerusalem is the only subject now remaining for an epic poem; a subject which, like Milton's Fall of Man, should interest all Christendom, as the Homeric War of Troy interested all Greece.
As for the old mythology, incredulus odi; and yet there must be a mythology, or a quasi-mythology, for an epic poem.
This has some claim to be called an epic poem, an epic of the modern kind, composed with a definite theory.
He refused altogether to be led away as Boccaccio was by the formal classical ideal of epic poetry--the 'receipt to make an epic poem' which prescribed as necessary all the things employed in the construction of the Aeneid.
The Little Geste of Robin Hood seems to be an attempt to make an epic poem by joining together a number of ballads.
The poem is a kind of fantasia, intended to call up, by allusion, the personages of the most famous stories; it is not an epic poem, but it plays with some of the plots of heroic poetry familiar throughout the whole Teutonic region.
Epic poem of Homer on the adventures of Ulysses, 337.
Virgil's epic poem on the adventures of AEneas, 374.
I had made an epic poem, and panegyrics on all the princes in Europe, and thought myself the greatest genius that ever was.
According to the information which Pope gave to Spence, he commenced an epic poem at thirteen, and wrote four books of about a thousand verses each.
In epic poetry, it is true, too nice and exact a pursuit of the allegory is justly esteemed a fault; and Chaucer had the discernment to avoid it in his Knight's Tale, which was an attempt towards an epic poem.
Here the French Interpreter supposes, without any Hesitation, that it signifies nothing else but an Epic Poem, or the Art of making it.
An Epic Poem composed by him at the age of twelve years.
With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem.
It was well said, that "the praise of an epic poem is to feign a person exceeding Nature.
For a Roman, the chief matter for an epic poem would be Roman civilization; for a Puritan, it would be the relations of God and man.
The +Thebais+, an Epic poem in twelve Books, on the strife between the brothers Eteocles and Polynices, and the subsequent history of Thebes to the death of Creon.
The Epic Poem on which I shall ground my present critique, has for its chief characteristics, brevity and simplicity.
But I, as his Commentator, will contend for the dignity of my Author; and will plainly demonstrate his Poem to be an Epic Poem, agreeable to the example of all Poets, and the consent of all Critics heretofore.
Schiller has a tragedy on the subject, Casimir Delavigne an elegy on her, Southey an epic poem on her life and death, and Voltaire a burlesque.
His chief work is, "The Thebaid," an epic poem in twelve books.
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