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Joseph Andrews Joseph Andrews, or The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of his Friend Mr. Abraham Adams, was the first published full-length novel of the English author Henry Fielding, and indeed among the first novels in the English language. Published in 1742 and defined by Fielding as a "comic epic poem in prose", it is the story of a good-natured footman's adventures on the road home from London with his friend and mentor, the absent-minded parson Abraham Adams. The novel represents the coming together of the two competing aesthetics of 18th-century literature: the mock-heroic and neoclassical (and,
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text of "Joseph Andrews" from Project Gutenberg Joseph Andrews Joseph Andrews, or The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of his Friend Mr. Abraham Adams, was the first published full-length novel of the English author Henry Fielding, and indeed among the first novels in the English language. Published in 1742 and defined by Fielding as a "comic epic poem in prose", it is the story of a good-natured footman's adventures on the road home from London with his friend and mentor, the absent-minded parson Abraham Adams. The novel represents the coming together of the two competing aesthetics of
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Joseph Andrews Joseph Andrews, or The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of his Friend Mr. Abraham Adams, was the first published full-length novel of the English author Henry Fielding, and indeed among the first novels in the English language. Published in 1742 and defined by Fielding as a "comic epic poem in prose", it is the story of a good-natured footman's adventures on the road home from London with his friend and mentor, the absent-minded parson Abraham Adams. The novel represents the coming together of the two competing aesthetics of 18th-century literature: the mock-heroic and neoclassical (and,
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value. The impetus for the novel, as Fielding claims in the preface, is the establishment of a genre of writing "which I do not remember to have been hitherto attempted in our language", defined as the "comic epic-poem in prose": a work of prose fiction, epic in length and variety of incident and character, in the hypothetical spirit of Homer's lost (and possibly apocryphal) comic poem "Margites". He dissociates his fiction from the scandal-memoir and the contemporary novel. Book III describes the work as biography. As becomes apparent from the first few chapters of the novel in which Richardson and
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a wide field of teratology (science of monsters) and artistic experimentation. The monstrous, for instance, often occurs as the notion of "play". The sportiveness of the grotesque category can be seen in the notion of the preternatural category of the "lusus naturae", in natural history writings and in cabinets of curiosities. The last vestiges of romance, such as the marvellous also provide opportunities for the presentation of the grotesque in, for instance, operatic spectacle. The mixed form of the novel was commonly described as grotesque - see for instance Fielding's "comic epic poem in prose". ("Joseph Andrews" and "Tom Jones")
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for thousands of pages; a "roman à tiroirs"). D'Urfé's novel also promoted a rarefied neo-Platonism, which differed profoundly from the physicality of the knights in the Renaissance novel (such as Amadis of Gaul). The only element of d'Urfé's work which did not produce imitations was its "roman pastoral" setting. In theorizing the origins of the novel, the early 17th century conceived of the form as "an epic in prose"; in truth, the epic poem at the end of the Renaissance had few thematic differences from the novel. Novelistic love had spilled into the epic, and adventurous knights had become the
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Kumud somehow falls into the river and is picked up by Sadhvis at the bank of the river. Anandshankar Dhruv described the novel as a purana; Vishwanath Bhatt called it an 'epic in prose'; while Dolarrai Mankad hailed it as 'Sakalakatha'. Umashankar Joshi also appreciated the novel and called it 'the poem of the Age written in prose'. The size of Saraswatichandra was criticized in the context of form-content relationship. But, Ramnarayan V. Pathak observed that the looseness of the novel does not diminish from its aesthetic beauty. However, Suresh Joshi, a strong proponent of formalism, criticized the novel for
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In England and the rest of the British Isles Oliver Cromwell's rule temporarily banned all theatre, festivals, jesters, mummers plays and frivolities. The ban was lifted when the monarchy was restored with Charles II. The Drury Lane theatre was favorite of King Charles. In contrast to the metaphysical poets was John Milton's "Paradise Lost", an epic religious poem in blank verse. Milton had been Oliver Cromwell's chief propagandist and suffered when the Restoration came. "Paradise Lost" is one of the highest developments of the epic form in poetry immediately preceding the era of the modern prose novel. An allegorical novel,
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Dead Souls Dead Souls (, "Mjórtvyje dúshi") is a novel by Nikolai Gogol, first published in 1842, and widely regarded as an exemplar of 19th-century Russian literature. The purpose of the novel was to demonstrate the flaws and faults of the Russian mentality and character. Gogol portrayed those defects through Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov (Russian: Павел Иванович Чичиков) and the people whom he encounters in his endeavours. These people are typical of the Russian middle-class of the time. Gogol himself saw it as an "epic poem in prose", and within the book as a "novel in verse". Despite supposedly completing the
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(Gogol's "Dead Souls", another main contender, was referred to by the author as a poem or epic in prose as in the style of Dante's "Divine Comedy", and was at any rate never completed). The novel introduces a dual character study, as seen with the gradual breakdown of Bazarov's and Arkady's nihilistic opposition to emotional display, especially in the case of Bazarov's love for Madame Odintsova. The novel is also the first Russian work to gain prominence in the Western world, eventually gaining the approval of well established novelists Gustave Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant, and Henry James. The Bolshevik revolutionary
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events surrounding it. Muldoon's work takes as its premise the idea that Southey and Coleridge actually came to America to found their ideal state, and offers a multi-layered poetic exploration of what might have happened. It won the 1992 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Madoc (poem) Madoc is an 1805 epic poem composed by Robert Southey. It is based on the legend of Madoc, a supposed Welsh prince who fled internecine conflict and sailed to America in the 12th century. The origins of the poem can be traced to Southey's schoolboy days when he completed a prose version of Madoc's story.
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After achieving success as a poet, Wilson tried his hand at prose fiction, publishing "Until the Day Break" in 1900. In addition to his many poems that were published individually in various periodicals and anthologies around the country, Wilson published two anthologies of his own, as well as an epic poem, and the aforementioned novel. Robert Burns Wilson Robert Burns Wilson (October 30, 1850 – March 31, 1916) was an American painter and poet. Wilson was born in Parker, Pennsylvania in 1850. In his teens, he moved to Pittsburgh and, with little formal training, he became a self-taught painter and
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Madoc (poem) Madoc is an 1805 epic poem composed by Robert Southey. It is based on the legend of Madoc, a supposed Welsh prince who fled internecine conflict and sailed to America in the 12th century. The origins of the poem can be traced to Southey's schoolboy days when he completed a prose version of Madoc's story. By the time Southey was in his twenties, he began to devote himself to working on the poem in hopes that he could sell it to raise money to fulfill his ambitions to start a new life in America, where he hoped to
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poem as "a contemplative recapitulation of all Melville's imaginative life", and Newton Arvin, who calls it "Melville's great novel of ideas in verse". Melville's centennial epic is also his most direct commentary on the era of Reconstruction. In 1994, Harold Bloom chose "Clarel" as one of four Melville works to be included in his book "The Western Canon". Clarel Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876) is an epic poem by American writer Herman Melville, originally published in two volumes. "Clarel" is the longest poem in American literature, stretching to almost 18,000 lines (longer even than European
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the generic identity of a long poem greatly contributes to its meaning. Because long poems are influenced by many more strictly defined genres, a long poem revising strict generic rules creates striking contrast with epic-genre expectations. Keller also notes that she agrees with critic Susan Friedman when Friedman expresses her concern that the long poem associated with the epic has been "the quintessential male territory whose boundaries enforce women's status as outsiders on the landscape of poetry." Considering that there are many long poem authors that are women, one cannot fully associate the long poem with the epic genre. However,
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White Topee White Topee (1954) is a novel by Australian writer Eve Langley. The novel is set in Gippsland, Victoria, which is depicted as an idyllic place with peoples from many nations working on the land in harmony. The novel is a sequel of sorts to the author's earlier book "The Pea-Pickers", and features the same characters two years later. Peter Harding, writing in "The Sydney Morning Herald", found the novel "is, more than anything else, a poem. Plain prose and formal verse intersperse many of its 250 pages, but much of it is a poem disguised as prose. The
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have won popularity and have become transformed into songs, for instance "Flyv fugl, flyv" – (“Fly, Bird, fly“), and some of the verses from his collection "Til Een", 1842, (“For One”) a tribute to his wife. A classic is also the small humorous epic poem for children: "Flugten til Amerika" 1830, (Engl. Transl. "The Flight to America", 1976). Besides must be mentioned "In the Year of Grace" a novel (1874); and other works in prose. He died in Paris, but his body was brought to Denmark, and was buried in the heart of the woods. As a lover of Woman
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Der Messias (Klopstock) Der Messias (“The Messiah”) is an epic poem published from 1748 to 1773 by German poet Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock. The poem consists of 19,458 dactylic hexameters, as compared with the 15,693 of Homer's "Iliad". At Schulpforta, the classical school Klopstock attended 1739–1745, the plan for the poem was formulated. The project reflected the influence of Johann Jakob Bodmer's translation of John Milton's "Paradise Lost", which Klopstock had read at the school. After developing his plan, Klopstock wrote a prose version of the first three cantos. After going to Leipzig in 1747, he recast the prose into dactylic
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the eighth, though there is no proper history of it for centuries after that. That Priam's nephew Aeneas of Troy had anything at all to do with the founding of Rome is pure legend, a good deal of it invented by Virgil himself". She also explains that her work is a translation of the last six books of the "Aeneid" into prose. Le Guin's thinking about "Lavinia" as a translation demonstrates that Le Guin has a nuanced theory of translation. She adds much to Virgil's epic poem, but carries across much of Virgil's poetry and the world of the "Aeneid"
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ou la Belle au plus offrant" (1790): a political parable about scientific progress featuring an inventor named Frankésteïn who creates a life-sized automaton. Percy Bysshe Shelley's 1816 poem "Mutability" is also quoted and its theme of the role of the subconscious is discussed in prose. The Creature also quotes a passage of the poem. His name has never appeared as the author of the poem although other poets are cited by name in the novel, implying that Mary wrote the poem and developed the psychological ideas. Another potential reason is to conceal his contributions to the novel. Within the past
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figure for whom the personal and the political dramatically fused could not come at a more appropriate time in our beleaguered American history…. As Muhammad Ali’s life was an epic of a life so “Ali: A Life” is an epic of a biography. Much in its pages will be familiar to those with some knowledge of boxing but even the familiar may be glimpsed from a new perspective in Eig’s fluent prose; for pages in succession its narrative reads like a novel — a suspenseful novel with a cast of vivid characters who prevail through decades and who help to
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Burdocize", on December 28, 1593. The tale was dramatized and produced in Paris by the Confrérie de la Passion in 1557. The tale also serves as the basis for Christoph Martin Wieland's epic poem "Oberon" of 1780, where Huon becomes the lover of the Sultan's daughter Rezia/Amanda. Andre Norton retold the tale in quasi-modern English prose as "Huon of the Horn", published by Harcourt, Brace & Company in 1951, which is considered her first fantasy novel. The Charlot of the story has been identified by Auguste Longnon ("Romania" vol. viii) with Charles the Child, one of the sons of Charles
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predated by Jean-Baptiste Cousin de Grainville's French epic prose poem Le Dernier Homme (English: "The Last Man" (1805)) and this work is also sometimes considered the first modern work to depict the end of the world. Published after his death in 1805, de Grainville's work follows the character of Omegarus, the titular "last man," in what is essentially a retelling of the Book of Revelation, combined with themes of the story of Adam and Eve. Unlike most apocalyptic tales, de Grainville's novel approaches the end of the world not as a cautionary tale, or a tale of survival, but as
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form, originated in the United States first on radio in the 1930s, then a couple of decades later on television. The music video was also developed in the West in the middle of the 20th century. Musical theatre was developed in the West in the 19th and 20th Centuries, from music hall, comic opera, and Vaudeville; with significant contributions from the Jewish diaspora, African-Americans, and other marginalized peoples. While epic literary works in verse such as the Mahabharata and Homer's Iliad are ancient and occurred worldwide, the prose novel as a distinct form of storytelling, with developed, consistent human characters
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Bucaneg, who collaborated with Lopez in the translation of the Doctrina into Iloko, for having been the first known Ilokano poet, and as the "Father of Ilokano Poetry and Literature." Bucaneg, blind since childhood, authored the popular epic known as "Biag ni Lam-ang" ("Life of Lam-ang") written in the 17th century. The earliest written form of the epic poem was given by Fr. Gerardo Blanco to Isabelo de los Reyes, who published it in "El Ilocano" from December 1889 to February 1890, with Spanish translation in prose, and also reprinted it in his El Folklore Filipino, under the title "Vida
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early 1990s he left the comic industry mainstream and went independent for a while, working on experimental work such as the epic "From Hell" and the prose novel "Voice of the Fire". He subsequently returned to the mainstream later in the 1990s, working for Image Comics, before developing America's Best Comics, an imprint through which he published works such as "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" and the occult-based "Promethea". Moore is an occultist, ceremonial magician, and anarchist, and has featured such themes in works including "Promethea", "From Hell", and "V for Vendetta", as well as performing avant-garde spoken word occult
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for it. A knight of the rueful countenance here in Dublin.<br> Poems that have been described as national epics include: Some prose works, while not strictly epic poetry, have an important place in the national consciousness of their nations. These include the following: National epic A national epic is an epic poem or a literary work of epic scope which seeks or is believed to capture and express the essence or spirit of a particular nation; not necessarily a nation state, but at least an ethnic or linguistic group with aspirations to independence or autonomy. National epics frequently recount the
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Mexico City Blues Mexico City Blues is a poem published by Jack Kerouac in 1959 composed of 242 "choruses" or stanzas. Written between 1954 and 1957, the poem is the product of Kerouac's spontaneous prose, his Buddhism, and his disappointment at his failure to publish a novel between 1950's "The Town and the City" and 1957's "On the Road". Kerouac began writing the choruses that became "Mexico City Blues" while living with Bill Garver, a heroin addict and friend of William S. Burroughs, in Mexico City in 1955. Written under the influence of marijuana and morphine, choruses were defined only
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journal, at the end of the nineteenth century published the following: "Man has been defined, perhaps somewhat crudely, says "Food and Cookery", as an animal that prefers a properly cooked meal to raw food, and Noah's wine to Adam's ale." Madeleine L'Engle used the term in her 1986 novel, "Many Waters", and David Garnett used the phrase in his 1963 novel, "Two by Two: A Story of Survival". Elizabeth Barrett Browning's 1856 epic poem, "Aurora Leigh" has the following lines: "For everywhere/ We're too materialistic,—eating clay,/ (Like men of the west) instead of Adam's corn/ And Noah's wine." A work
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Greek thinkers who dared to ask why; it could only exist because of prose. Boorstin proposes that prose also encouraged the development of democracy by inviting participation from the citizenry. Other literary forms rose. The epic and its tales of gods and heroes and their great deeds continued, although somewhat abated. History as story began with Herodotus (fifth century BC) and The Histories. But it was the novel, what Boorstin calls "re-creating life out of life", that democratized literature. The novel inspired new ways of thinking about ourselves and our world and the forms created were revelations to the Western
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Basava purana The Basava Purana is a 13th-century Telugu epic poem. It was written by Palkuriki Somanatha. It is a sacred text of Lingayat. The epic poem narrates the life story of philosopher and social reformer Basava (1134–1196 CE), the founder of <nowiki>Lingayat</nowiki> . He is also known by several other names such as Basavanna, Basaweshwara, Basavesha, and Basavaraja. It is also an anthology of several Lingayat saints (also known as Shiva Sharanas, devotees of Lord Shiva) and their philosophies. In contrast to campu style (poems in verse of various metres interspersed with paragraphs of prose), Somanatha adopted the desi
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The Story of Kullervo "The Story of Kullervo" is a prose version of the Kullervo cycle in the Karelian and Finnish epic poem "Kalevala", written by J. R. R. Tolkien when he was an undergraduate at Exeter College, Oxford, from 1914 to 1915. That was an unsettled period for the author and this is thought to be reflected in the story's dark subject matter. It also marks "the first time that J. R. R. Tolkien, who had been a poet until then, began writing prose". Known as a source (among others) for Túrin Turambar, "The Story of Kullervo" was the
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his lectures "On Translating Homer" (1861). The poem consists of 892 lines of blank verse. Sohrab and Rustum Sohrab and Rustum: An Episode is a narrative poem with strong tragic themes first published in 1853 by Matthew Arnold. The poem retells a famous episode from Ferdowsi's Persian epic "Shahnameh" relating how the great warrior Rustum unknowingly slew his long-lost son Sohrab in single combat. Arnold, who was unable to read the original, relied on summaries of the story in John Malcolm's "History of Persia" and Sainte-Beuve's review of a French prose translation of Ferdowsi. In "Sohrab and Rustum", Arnold attempted
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"Jerusalem". The poem appears after a prose attack on the influence of Greek and Roman culture, which is unfavourably contrasted with "the Sublime of the Bible". The poem is divided into two "books". Book I opens with an epic invocation to the muses, drawing on the classical models of Homer and Virgil, which were also used by John Milton in "Paradise Lost". However, Blake describes inspiration in bodily terms, vitalising the nerves of his arm. Blake goes on to describe the activities of Los, one of his mythological characters, who creates a complex universe from within which other Blakean characters
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public. Another talent for prose was revealed by Frederik van Eeden (1860–1932) in "De kleine Johannes" ("Little Johnny", 1887) and in "Van de koele meren des doods" ("From the Cold Pools of Death", 1901), a melancholy novel. After 1887 the condition of modern Dutch literature remained comparatively stationary, and within the last decade of the 19th century was definitely declining. In 1889 a new poet, Herman Gorter (1864–1927) made his appearance with an epic poem called "Mei" ("May"), eccentric both in prosody and in treatment. He held his own without any marked advance towards lucidity or variety. Since the recognition
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and criticism in both Irish and English. His first major publication was his controversial novel "Murder in Three Moves", followed by Irish-language prose epic "L'Attaque", which won an Irish Book Club award. Both works had a strong poetic flavour. His next book was a volume of verse entitled "Week-End". His narrative poem "Dermot and Grace", an Irish version of "Venus and Adonis", is considered his finest work. Ó Tuairisc produced little during the five years following O'Donell's death. In 1981 he published "The road to Brightcity: and other stories" (Swords: Poolbeg Press, 1981), a translation of nine of the best
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continued with Seneca the Younger, whose "Apocolocyntosis", or "Pumpkinification", is the only near-complete classical Menippean satire to survive. It consisted in an irreverent parody of the deification of Emperor Claudius. The Menippean tradition is also evident in Petronius' "Satyricon", especially in the banquet scene "Cena Trimalchionis", which combines epic form, tragedy, and philosophy with verse and prose; and in Apuleius' "Golden Ass", the form is combined with the comic novel. Elements of the Menippean satire have also been pointed out in the Gospels. Later examples include "The Consolation of Philosophy" of Boethius and "The Caesars" of Julian the apostate. The
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his beloved, Lady Mirdath, is given a vision of a far-distant future where their souls will be re-united, and sees the world of that time through the eyes of a future incarnation. The language and style used are intended to resemble that of the 17th century, though the prose has features characteristic of no period whatsoever: the almost-complete lack of dialogue and proper names, for example. Critic Ian Bell has suggested that John Milton's epic poem "Paradise Lost" (1667) is probably a partial literary inspiration for Hodgson's novel, especially due to the hellish visions of sombre intensity which mark both
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Mutability (poem) "Mutability" is a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley which appeared in the 1816 collection "Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude: And Other Poems". Half of the poem is quoted in his wife Mary Shelley's novel "Frankenstein" although his authorship is not acknowledged in either the 1818 or 1831 editions. She is credited as the author of the lines. There is also a prose version of the same themes of the poem in "Frankenstein". The Creature or Frankenstein's monster also quotes a line from the poem in the novel. The eight lines from the poem "Mutability" which are quoted
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or love poem had a long history being at times tender and chaste and at other times rather explicit. In the Sufi tradition the love poem would take on a wider, mystical and religious importance. Arabic epic literature was much less common than poetry, and presumably originates in oral tradition, written down from the 14th century or so. Maqama or rhymed prose is intermediate between poetry and prose, and also between fiction and non-fiction. Maqama was an incredibly popular form of Arabic literature, being one of the few forms which continued to be written during the decline of Arabic in
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Moonstone Books Moonstone Books is an American comic book, graphic novel, and prose fiction publisher based in Chicago focused on pulp fiction comic books and prose anthologies as well as horror and western tales. The company began publishing creator-owned comics in 1995, and since 2001 has also published material based on a number of licensed properties, including "Zorro", "Doc Savage", "The Avenger", "Buckaroo Banzai", "Bulldog Drummond", "", "Mr. Moto", "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar", "The Phantom", "Honey West" and several titles based in White Wolf's World of Darkness. Moonstone's editor-in-chief is Joe Gentile, who frequently writes his own stories for their
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the 17th century, the Academy, founded in Rome, was named after the Pastoral novel. Arcadia (poem) Arcadia is a pastoral poem written around 1480 by Jacopo Sannazaro and published in 1504 in Naples. Sannazaro's "Arcadia" influenced the literature of the 16th and 17th centuries (e.g., William Shakespeare, Philip Sidney, Marguerite de Navarre, Jorge de Montemayor, and John Milton). "Arcadia" by Sannazaro could be considered a prosimetrum – a combination of prose and verse. The alternation of prose and verse is consistent, but each varies considerably. Many portions of the prose are merely descriptive. Others sections, especially in the second half
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for "taking care to castrate [...] the glands of any outright affirmation", and for resembling "the Bastille". In his early prose poems, Bogza addressed workers in the oil industry in his native Prahova, claiming to define himself in relation to their work (while still appealing to the imagery of filth). The series has been defined by critic Constantin Stănescu as poems "rehabilitating, among other things, the compromised «genre» of the social poem". One such piece, published in 1929 and titled "Poem cu erou" ("Poem with a Hero"), documented the unusual death of a roughneck named Nicolae Ilie, who burned after
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Novelogue A novelogue is a story told almost exclusively through dialogue. Character descriptions, and settings are minimally provided. A "novel" or "prose novel" is defined as: "A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century... A novelogue is a combination between the words "novel" and "dialogue", and it is written more like a screenplay than a novel. Prose are only used in brief
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hours creep, Dream thou – and from thy sleep Mutability (poem) "Mutability" is a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley which appeared in the 1816 collection "Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude: And Other Poems". Half of the poem is quoted in his wife Mary Shelley's novel "Frankenstein" although his authorship is not acknowledged in either the 1818 or 1831 editions. She is credited as the author of the lines. There is also a prose version of the same themes of the poem in "Frankenstein". The Creature or Frankenstein's monster also quotes a line from the poem in the novel. The
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S4N Books, a publisher of long poems and reprints of literary and religious nonfiction. Their authors include the British poet and scholar William Anderson and the Long Island poet Adam Penna. "To the House of the Sun" (2015, long poem)<br> "Virtues" (nonfiction, in progress)<br> "Hymns & Lamentations" (2011, poetry/prayers)<br> "The Lit World: Poem from History" (2008, poetry)<br> "Language of the Living" (2005, novel)<br> "Fusion" (2003, long poem)<br> "Songs of Innocence" (2002, poetry/prose collage, memoir)<br> "Death by Water" (2001, novel)<br> "The Valley of Ashes" (2000, short fiction and poetry)<br> "Acceleration" (2000, poetry/prose collage)<br> "Suburban Vertigo" (1999, poetry in the anthology Illegible
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and then classic literary fiction with $466 million. Genre began as an absolute classification system for ancient Greek literature. Poetry, prose, and drama each had a specific and calculated style that related to the theme of the story. Among the genres were the epic in poetry and tragedy and comedy for plays. In later periods other genres such as the chivalric romance, opera, and prose fiction developed. Though the novel is often seen as a modern genre, Ian Watt, in "The Rise of the Novel" (1957) suggests that the novel first came into being in the early 18th century, it
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at least one short epic, the "Ibis", which was directed against his former pupil Apollonius. He also compiled a prose treatise entitled the "Pinakes", in which he catalogued all the major works held in the Library of Alexandria. The Alexandrian poet Apollonius of Rhodes is best known for his epic poem the "Argonautica", which narrates the adventures of Jason and his shipmates the Argonauts on their quest to retrieve the Golden Fleece from the land of Colchis. The poet Aratus wrote the hexameter poem "Phaenomena", a poetic rendition of Eudoxus of Cnidus's treatise on the stars written in the fourth
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perspective of the poetthe time at which Apollonius wrote is governed by the present tense and by qualifiers like "now" and "to this day", the mythical action of the poem is governed by the past tense, whereas our own time is denoted 'modern'." English translations (verse): English translations (prose): Argonautica The Argonautica () is a Greek epic poem written by Apollonius Rhodius in the 3rd century BC. The only surviving Hellenistic epic, the "Argonautica" tells the myth of the voyage of Jason and the Argonauts to retrieve the Golden Fleece from remote Colchis. Their heroic adventures and Jason's relationship with
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death: Lucan, Seneca's nephew and like him writing under the Imperial terror of Nero, who drove them both to suicide, has the most extensive list of tortures in his epic poem on the civil war of the 40s. The historicity of Lucan's epic should be treated with care; its aims are more like those of Shakespeare's history plays or the modern historical novel, in that factuality is subordinate to character and theme. Lucan places his account in the mouth of an old man who had lived through Sulla's civil war four decades before the time narrated in the poem, and
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Comics. --Len Wein Pandora Pann Pandora Pann is a fictional comic book character owned by DC Comics. Pandora debuted in "The Comic Reader" #197 (December 1981) and was created by Len Wein and Ross Andru. Pandora Pann is based on the Greek myth of Pandora the first woman, as related by the poet Hesiod in his epic poem, the "Theogony" (700 BCE). The character was originally slated for a September 1982 publication date by DC Comics. Len Wein and Ross Andru’s Pandora Pann was described in "The Comic Reader" #197 (December 1981) as "the assistant of an archaeologist who unwittingly
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Pandora Pann Pandora Pann is a fictional comic book character owned by DC Comics. Pandora debuted in "The Comic Reader" #197 (December 1981) and was created by Len Wein and Ross Andru. Pandora Pann is based on the Greek myth of Pandora the first woman, as related by the poet Hesiod in his epic poem, the "Theogony" (700 BCE). The character was originally slated for a September 1982 publication date by DC Comics. Len Wein and Ross Andru’s Pandora Pann was described in "The Comic Reader" #197 (December 1981) as "the assistant of an archaeologist who unwittingly opens Pandora's box
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Hierarchy of genres A hierarchy of genres is any formalization which ranks different genres in an art form in terms of their prestige and cultural value. In literature, the epic was considered the highest form, for the reason expressed by Samuel Johnson in his "Life of John Milton": "By the general consent of criticks, the first praise of genius is due to the writer of an epick poem, as it requires an assemblage of all the powers which are singly sufficient for other compositions." Below that came lyric poetry, and comic poetry, with a similar ranking for drama. The novel
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issues of writer-artist Jack Katz's 1974 Comics and Comix Co. series "The First Kingdom" were collected as a trade paperback (Pocket Books, March 1978), which described itself as "the first graphic novel". Issues of the comic had described themselves as "graphic prose", or simply as a novel. Similarly, "Sabre: Slow Fade of an Endangered Species" by writer Don McGregor and artist Paul Gulacy (Eclipse Books, August 1978)—the first graphic novel sold in the newly created "direct market" of United States comic-book shops—was called a "graphic album" by the author in interviews, though the publisher dubbed it a "comic novel" on
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(also known as just "Arthour and Merlin"), and the poem Stanzaic "Morte Arthur". The following is the mid-15th-century English translation, with modern conventions for punctuation and capitalization, of the poem's prose version (sans the sequels): Merlin (poem) Merlin is a partially lost epic poem of the Arthurian legend in which the French knight-poet Robert de Boron reworked Geoffrey of Monmouth's material about the legendary figure of Merlin, writing in Old French sometime in either the late 12th or early 13th century. Together with Robert's other works, "Joseph" and "Perceval", "Merlin" forms a trilogy centered around the Holy Grail. "Merlin" tells
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friend, John Hollins who painted the portraits, William Milbourne James, later Lord Chief Justice, Charles Green the balloonist, Thomas Monck Mason, the other passenger, and Hollond at the centre. Besides the painting and the book, the humorous poet Thomas Hood also wrote a comic poem to celebrate the epic journey to Nassau. The "Ode to Messrs Green, Hollond and Monck on their late Balloon Adventure", includes the following lines <poem> </poem> In 1837, Hollond served as a Whig politician representing the constituency of Hastings. According to official parliamentary records, Hollond served from 1837 until 1852, but he did not speak
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Kush Nama Kush-Nama (), is a Persian epic poem and part of a mythical history of Iran written by Ḥakim Iranshān (or Irānshāh) b. Abu'l-Khay between the years 501-04/1108-11. A critical edition of the poem based on unique manuscript of the work is found in a collection held in the British Museum (OR 2780) and published by Professor Jalal Matini. The collection contains five epic poems: namely, Asadi Tusi's Garshasp-nama, Ahmad Tabrizi's Šāhanšāh-nāma, Tāriḵ-e Čangiz Ḵān va Jānešinānaš ("The History of Genghis Khan and his Successors") the Bahman-nama, and the Kush-nama. It is likely that a prose version of the
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and epic poems, and tragedies and satiric dramas, and thirty comedies, and sixty tragedies and the Silloi and amatory poems." No remains of his dramas have survived. Of his epic poems little is known, but it may be presumed that they were chiefly ludicrous or satirical poems in the epic form. Possibly his "Python" (), which contained a long account of a conversation with Pyrrho, during a journey to the Delphic oracle, may be referred to this class; unless it was in prose. It appears probable that his "Funeral Banquet of Arcesilaus" was a satirical poem in epic verse. He
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Opus Lankeswaran, in which he projects the heroic and better side of Ravana. It was staged more than 1,800 times. Artist Vikas Goel and writer Vijayendra Mohanty have created a ten-part comic series called Ravanayan that presents the story of Ramayana from Ravana's perspective. Following the success of Ashok Banker's Ramayana Series retellings, a graphic novel adaptation was released in 2010. Versions of Ramayana Depending on the methods of counting, as many as three hundred versions of the Indian epic poem, the "Ramayana", are known to exist. The oldest version is generally recognized to be the Sanskrit version attributed to
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Antiquities, "Odin" (1950) by . Works of modern literature featuring Odin include the poem (1745) by , (1769) by , (1771) by , the tragedy by , the epic poem (1803) by , the poem (1803) and (1809) by , poems in (1819) by , the four-part novel (1833) by , the poem "Prelude" (1850) by William Wordsworth, the canzone (1864) by , the poem (1870) by Richard Wagner, the ballad "Rolf Krake" (1910) by F. Schanz, the novel (1918–1923) by , the comedy (1923) by , the novel "Wotan" by , (1937) by , the poem (1938) by ,
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Sohrab and Rustum Sohrab and Rustum: An Episode is a narrative poem with strong tragic themes first published in 1853 by Matthew Arnold. The poem retells a famous episode from Ferdowsi's Persian epic "Shahnameh" relating how the great warrior Rustum unknowingly slew his long-lost son Sohrab in single combat. Arnold, who was unable to read the original, relied on summaries of the story in John Malcolm's "History of Persia" and Sainte-Beuve's review of a French prose translation of Ferdowsi. In "Sohrab and Rustum", Arnold attempted to imitate the "grandeur and rapidity" of Homer's style which he was to discuss in
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the titles of works in French published in Holland, which supplied the international market and English publishers exploited the novel/romance controversy in the 1670s and 1680s. Contemporary critics listed the advantages of the new genre: brevity, a lack of ambition to produce epic poetry in prose; the style was fresh and plain; the focus was on modern life, and on heroes who were neither good nor bad. The novel's potential to become the medium of urban gossip and scandal fuelled the rise of the novel/novella. Stories were offered as allegedly true recent histories, not for the sake of scandal but
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the genre of each work ("The California Poem" is a book-length poem and "The Book of Jon" is a (mostly) prose memoir), but also by the way that the two books look. "The California Poem" is, like its namesake states, large; it is 7 x 8 ½ inches in dimension, 200 pages in length. "The Book of Jon", on the other hand, is quite small; it fits nicely into the back pocket of a pair of jeans. These differences are telling, for "The California Poem" is a great big epic, "The Book of Jon" an intimate family history. Eleni Sikelianos
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in Yugoslavia, France, Italy and the United States. Her poems also appeared in various magazines and anthologies worldwide, translated into Spanish, German, Polish, Bulgarian, Slovakian, Hindi, Chinese, Indonesian, Romanian, Macedonian, Rusyn and Slovenian. Her first novel, entitled "Élhetek az arcodon? (Can I Live on Your Face?)" was published in 2007 by "Nyitott Könyvműhely". It is considered to be an eminent work in Hungarian Avant-garde literature. It is partly autobiographical, partly self-reflecting. The novel alternates between reality and fiction, prose and poetry, sometimes switching to a prose poem style. Its main target audience is that part of the artists’ community who
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language, whether in choice of words or in rhythmic cadence. Der Messias (Klopstock) Der Messias (“The Messiah”) is an epic poem published from 1748 to 1773 by German poet Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock. The poem consists of 19,458 dactylic hexameters, as compared with the 15,693 of Homer's "Iliad". At Schulpforta, the classical school Klopstock attended 1739–1745, the plan for the poem was formulated. The project reflected the influence of Johann Jakob Bodmer's translation of John Milton's "Paradise Lost", which Klopstock had read at the school. After developing his plan, Klopstock wrote a prose version of the first three cantos. After going
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it avoids the high medieval aspects of the Arthurian cycle (such as the Grail, and the courtly setting); the poem begins with a British "counter-invasion" to the Saxon lands ("Arthur eastward in arms purposed"). "", published on 22 May 2014, is a prose translation of the early medieval epic poem "Beowulf" from Old English to modern English. Translated by Tolkien from 1920 to 1926, it was edited by his son Christopher. The translation is followed by over 200 pages of commentary on the poem; this commentary was the basis of Tolkien's acclaimed 1936 lecture "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics".
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the shamanic religions of Central Asia, because tattooing is often associated with shamanic initiation. The skin of Epimenides was preserved at the courts of the ephores in Sparta, conceivably as a good-luck charm. Epimenides is also reckoned with Melampus and Onomacritus as one of the founders of Orphism. According to Diogenes Laertius, Epimenides met Pythagoras in Crete, and they went to the Cave of Ida. Several prose and poetic works, now lost, were attributed to Epimenides, including a theogony, an epic poem on the Argonautic expedition, prose works on purifications and sacrifices, a cosmogony, oracles, a work on the laws
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Pandit), Naladamayanti Swayamvara (by Raghunath Pandit), Pandava Pratap, Harivijay, Ramvijay (by Shridhar Pandit) and Mahabharata (by Moropant) were produced. However, the most versatile and voluminous writer among the poets was Moropanta (1729–1794) whose Mahabharata was the first epic poem in Marathi. The historical section of the old Marathi literature was unique as it contained both prose and poetry. The prose section contained the Bakhars that were written after the foundation of the Maratha kingdom by Shivaji. The poetry section contained the Povadas and the Katavas composed by the Shahirs. The period from 1794 to 1818 is regarded as the closing
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was more than parody, for he intended, as he announced in the preface, a "kind of writing which I do not remember to have seen hithereto attempted in our language." In this new kind of writing, which Fielding called a "comic epic poem in prouse," he creatively blended two classical traditions: that of the epic, which had been poetic, and that of the drama, but emphasizing the comic rather than the tragic. Another distinction of "Joseph Andrews" and of the novels to come was the use of everyday reality of character and action as opposed to the fables of the
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8 March 1010. The "Shahnameh" is a monument of poetry and historiography, being mainly the poetical recast of what Ferdowsi, his contemporaries, and his predecessors regarded as the account of Iran's ancient history. Many such accounts already existed in prose, an example being the Abu-Mansuri Shahnameh. A small portion of Ferdowsi's work, in passages scattered throughout the "Shahnameh", is entirely of his own conception. The "Shahnameh" is an epic poem of over 50,000 couplets, written in early Modern Persian. It is based mainly on a prose work of the same name compiled in Ferdowsi's earlier life in his native Tus.
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poem itself can lead to a fuller understanding of one's experience." Kenneth Lincoln saw humor in the poem, writing "perhaps it adds up to no more than a small comic lesson in the necessity of things in themselves." The Red Wheelbarrow "The Red Wheelbarrow" is a poem by American modernist poet and physician William Carlos Williams (1883–1963). The poem was originally published without a title and was designated as "XXII" as the twenty-second work in Williams' 1923 book "Spring and All", a hybrid collection which incorporated alternating selections of free verse poetry and prose. It is one of Williams' most
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and Wesleyan University. Following his ordination, he worked in Peru, South America, for four years before getting ill, which experience he recounts in a novel, "Lazaro". He is the author of several books of poems, most notably a 12-thousand-line epic poem entitled, "The Dream of Norumbega: An Epic Poem on the United States of America." It includes the deeds of several American historical characters, including Captain John Smith, General Winfield Scott, and George Washington. To date, three volumes of the work (to be issued incrementally) have been published. The poet and critic Robert Peters, who has reviewed Chichetto's earlier works,
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reviewed and summarized the story in his poem "Wicked Alexandia" in response to seeing the Massenet opera. The poem was subsequently popularized as a comic song. Thaïs (novel) Thaïs is a novel by French writer Anatole France, published in 1890. It is based on events in the life of Saint Thaïs of Egypt, a legendary convert to Christianity who is said to have lived in the 4th century. It was the inspiration for the opera of the same name by Jules Massenet. Paphnuce, an ascetic hermit of the Egyptian desert, journeys to Alexandria to find Thais, the libertine beauty whom
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V" as an incipient anti-war play (99-100). Some critics, such as Evelyn Cobley and Umberto Rossi (who carried out a detailed analysis of Part 7), consider "In Parenthesis" a destructured novel, not a poem. In Parenthesis In Parenthesis is an epic poem of the First World War by David Jones first published in England in 1937. Although Jones had been known solely as an engraver and painter prior to its publication, the poem won the Hawthornden Prize and the admiration of writers such as W. B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot. Based on Jones's own experience as an infantryman, "In
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"Doctor Who", "Judge Dredd, Heroes" and "Nikolai Dante", as well as comic strip adventures of "The Phantom". His Doctor Who novel "Who Killed Kennedy", a journalist's point-of-view on the early Third Doctor stories, is highly popular with fans. Despite his successes as a comics editor and as a writer of prose, Bishop scripted many extremely unpopular comic strips in "2000 AD" and the "Megazine", including the comics adaptation of "A Life Less Ordinary", with art by Steve Yeowell. "The Spacegirls", a badly executed parody of the Spice Girls, is on the list of "2000 AD"'s 20 Worst Strips as chosen
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Prose poetry Prose poetry is poetry written in prose instead of using verse but preserving poetic qualities such as heightened imagery, parataxis and emotional effects. "The simplest definition is that a prose poem is a poem written in prose...But, not unlike 'free verse,' the oxymoronic name captures the complex nature of a beast bred to challenge conventional assumptions about what poetry is and what it can do." "The prose poem is a composition printed out as prose that names itself as poetry, availing itself of the elements of prose, while foregrounding the devices of poetry." Technically a prose poem appears
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It had no prototype. The language is classical throughout, but Cervantes added to the poem a comic supplement in prose, praising his own ability. Viaje del Parnaso Viaje del Parnaso (sometimes called "Viaje al Parnaso") () is a poetic work by Miguel de Cervantes. It was first published in 1614, two years before the author's death. The chief object of the poem is to survey contemporary poets, assembled on an imaginary boat to Parnassus, and ridicule (and sometimes throw overboard) those who, in Cervantes' opinion, are deficient. This satire is of a peculiar character: an effusion of sportive humour, leaving
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name of Manimegalai (the lead character of another Tamil epic). "Silappatikaram" contains three chapters: The Silappatikaram, apart from being the first known epic poem in Tamil, is also important for its literary innovations. It introduces the intermingling of poetry with prose, a form not seen in previous Tamil works. It features an unusual praise of the Sun, the Moon, the river Kaveri and the city of Poompuhar at its beginning, the contemporary tradition being to praise a deity. It is also considered to be a predecessor of the "Nigandu" lexicographic tradition. It has 30 referred as monologues sung by any
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with grammatically feminine adjectives, and accordingly the poem has been suggested to be the earliest Icelandic poem reliably attributable to a woman. Important compositions of the time from the 15th century to the 19th include sacred verse, most famously the "Passion Hymns" of Hallgrímur Pétursson; rímur, rhymed epic poems with alliterative verse that consist of two to four verses per stanza, popular until the end of the 19th century; and autobiographical prose writings such as the "Píslarsaga" of Jón Magnússon. A full translation of the Bible was published in the sixteenth century, and popular religious literature, such as the "Sendibréf
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retained in the chronicle prose. There is a consensus among philologists that there was a "Cantar de Los Siete Infantes de Lara", as the verses of the epic were not overly disturbed. Attempts have been made to reconstruct the original "Cantar". In this regard, Mercedes Vaquero has identified signs in the prose texts of oral delivery, suggesting that at some point there was a lay that was either spoken or sung. The "Cantar de los Siete Infantes de Lara" (or "de Salas") refers to the historical situation in Castile about 990, and this has been used to date the poem,
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it, although she writes letters to those who write about the poem online.A collection of poetry by Carty with a claim to authorship of "Footprints" was published in 2004. Mary Stevenson is also a purported author of the poem circa 1936. A Stevenson biography was published in 1995. Before its appearance in the 1970s, the phrase "footprints in the sand" occurred in other works. The most dominant usage in prose is in the context of fictional or nonfiction adventure or mystery stories or articles. Prominent fiction includes Daniel Defoe's 1719 novel "Robinson Crusoe" and Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "Foot-prints on
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charizein). Eucharis (fiction) Eucharis, who does not appear in Greek mythology, was one of the nymph Calypso's attendants in Fénelon's novel "Les Aventures de Télémaque" (1699). In Fénelon's modern prose epic, an improvisation upon Homeric themes, Telemachus while searching for his father, Odysseus, has been shipwrecked on Calypso's island, and there has fallen in love with Eucharis but must leave her, dutifully to pursue his quest. Fénelon, in charge of the education of the heir to the French throne, admonished his readers to see the work "not as a frivolous novel, that is offered here, reader, for your idleness, but
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Eucharis (fiction) Eucharis, who does not appear in Greek mythology, was one of the nymph Calypso's attendants in Fénelon's novel "Les Aventures de Télémaque" (1699). In Fénelon's modern prose epic, an improvisation upon Homeric themes, Telemachus while searching for his father, Odysseus, has been shipwrecked on Calypso's island, and there has fallen in love with Eucharis but must leave her, dutifully to pursue his quest. Fénelon, in charge of the education of the heir to the French throne, admonished his readers to see the work "not as a frivolous novel, that is offered here, reader, for your idleness, but a
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their political positions. Russian author Leo Tolstoy championed reform for his own country, particularly in education. Tolstoy did not consider his most famous work, "War and Peace" to be a novel (nor did he consider many of the great Russian fictions written at that time to be novels). This view becomes less surprising if one considers that Tolstoy was a novelist of the realist school who considered the novel to be a framework for the examination of social and political issues in nineteenth-century life. "War and Peace" (which is to Tolstoy really an epic in prose) therefore did not qualify.
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that the comic series was hastened to 42 issues from 60 to take advantage of the television series. Mahabharata (comics) Mahabharata (also known as Amar Chitra Katha's Mahabharata) is a comic adaptation of the Indian epic poem "Mahabharata". The 42-issue best-selling series by Amar Chitra Katha, Mumbai was illustrated by Dilip Kadam. The team of script writers (who took turns to complete the 42 issues) included Kamala Chandrakant, TMP Nedungadi, Subba Rao, Yagya Sharma, Lopamudra, Mihir Lal Mitra, Sumona Roy, Mohan Swaminathan, Shubha Kandhekar and Margie Sastry. The "Mahabharata" is often regarded as one of the most popular titles in
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on 22 April 1480; set in prose, it is a literal rendering of a French translation known as the "Ovide Moralisé". In 1567, Arthur Golding published a translation of the poem that would become highly influential, the version read by Shakespeare and Spenser. It was written in rhyming couplets of iambic heptameter. The next significant translation was by George Sandys, produced from 1621–6, which set the poem in heroic couplets, a metre that would subsequently become dominant in vernacular English epic and in English translations. In 1717, a translation appeared from Samuel Garth bringing together work "by the most eminent
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chivalry poem ever written. Baldassare Castiglione's dialogue "The Book of the Courtier" describes the ideal of the perfect court gentleman and of spiritual beauty. The lyric poet Torquato Tasso in "Jerusalem Delivered" wrote a Christian epic, making use of the "ottava rima", with attention to the Aristotelian canons of unity. In the early 17th century, some literary masterpieces were created, such as Giambattista Marino's long mythological poem, "L'Adone". The Baroque period also produced the clear scientific prose of Galileo as well as Tommaso Campanella's "The City of the Sun", a description of a perfect society ruled by a philosopher-priest. At
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of his "Flood!" artwork were used for the album covers for the bands Faith No More and Rage Against the Machine. He designed the animation for the 2010 film, "Howl", a movie based on the epic poem by Allen Ginsberg, who collaborated with Drooker on the book "Illuminated Poems". His best-selling book, "Howl: A Graphic Novel" visualizes the poem with animation art Drooker designed for the film. In 2006, the Library of Congress acquired the original art for "Flood! A Novel in Pictures", including preliminary drawings, sketches and cover paintings. The complete "Flood!" Archive is housed in the Prints &
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Augustan prose Augustan prose is somewhat ill-defined, as the definition of ""Augustan"" relies primarily upon changes in taste in poetry. However, the general time represented by Augustan literature saw a rise in prose writing as high literature. The essay, satire, and dialogue (in philosophy and religion) thrived in the age, and the English novel was truly begun as a serious art form. At the outset of the Augustan age, essays were still primarily imitative, novels were few and still dominated by the Romance, and prose was a rarely used format for satire, but, by the end of the period, the
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24,000 verses called simply "Bhārata". The "Mahābhārata" is the longest epic poem known and has been described as "the longest poem ever written". Its longest version consists of over 100,000 "śloka" or over 200,000 individual verse lines (each shloka is a couplet), and long prose passages. At about 1.8 million words in total, the "Mahābhārata" is roughly ten times the length of the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" combined, or about four times the length of the "Rāmāyaṇa". W. J. Johnson has compared the importance of the "Mahābhārata" in the context of world civilization to that of the Bible, the works
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proto-picaresque "The Golden Ass", as well as the heroic romances of the Greeks Heliodorus and Longus. Longus is the author of the Greek novel, "Daphnis and Chloe" (2nd century AD). Romance or chivalric romance is a type of narrative in prose or verse popular in the aristocratic circles of High Medieval and Early Modern Europe. They were marvel-filled adventures, often of a knight-errant with heroic qualities, who undertakes a quest, yet it is "the emphasis on heterosexual love and courtly manners distinguishes it from the "chanson de geste" and other kinds of epic, which involve heroism." In later romances, particularly
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his 1925 poem “The Hollow Men”. The main character in the comic book series "V for Vendetta", which started in 1982, and its 2006 film adaptation, wore a Guy Fawkes mask. In the comic and in the film, "V" succeeds in blowing up the Houses of Parliament on 5 November (1997 in the comic, 2021 in the film). Its film adaptation opening shows a dramatised depiction of Fawkes's arrest and execution, with Evey narrating the first lines of the poem of Guy Fawkes Night. In the "Doctor Who" Virgin Missing Adventures novel "The Plotters", the First Doctor and his companions
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Her books include a form-based “Selected Poems” series which focus on the prose poem, the catalog or list poem, visual poetry and tercets: The In(ter)vention of the Hay(na)ku: Selected Tercets 1996-2019, THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL: Selected Visual Poetry (2001-2019), INVENT(ST)ORY: Selected Catalog Poems & New 1996-2015, and THE THORN ROSARY: Selected Prose Poems & New 1998-2010. She issues “Selecteds” based on poetry form in order to show how she expanded a form’s landscape. She’s also released the first book-length haybun collection, 147 MILLION ORPHANS (MMXI-MML); a collected novels, SILK EGG; an experimental autobiography AGAINST MISANTHROPY; as well as two bilingual
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into a decorative symbolism. This kind of inner emanation I only saw with Kurosawa, in "Dodes'ka-den" and "Dreams"." Journalist and writer Aleksandar Žikić wrote: "Coldness of colors is in accord with ethereal characters, who are more like symbols and using the rhythm of the prose sample." The comic was also well received abroad. American comic book artist, writer and editor Archie Goodwin described the album as a "truly visually brilliant graphic novel". Polish critic Artur Dlugosz wrote: "A sensual comic 'Wedgwood's Tea Set' of the duo Tucić and Stefanović, attracts with its colors and execution technique. It is easy to
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segments of the story where character and setting descriptions are necessary. Otherwise, the story is told through conversation. Characters enter and exit as if moving around a world stage, like they would in a screenplay or stage play. A novelogue is also considered a form of "dialogic storytelling". Novelogue A novelogue is a story told almost exclusively through dialogue. Character descriptions, and settings are minimally provided. A "novel" or "prose novel" is defined as: "A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern
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Fiction" author Don D'Amassa called the novel "one of her better fantasies." Bradley's works have received praise from feminist critics, who have particularly lauded her ability to portray multidimensional women as "revered conduit[s] of nature-based religion and mysticism" as seen with the character of Kassandra. At the 1988 Locus Awards, "The Firebrand" was voted the twentieth best fantasy novel of the year. The Firebrand The Firebrand is a 1987 historical fantasy novel by American author Marion Zimmer Bradley. Set in the ancient city of Troy, the novel is a re-telling of Homer's epic poem, the "Iliad". "The Firebrand" is written
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Blind" in his World War One prose-poem "In Parenthesis": "the stumbling dark of the blind, that Breughel knew about - ditch circumscribed". Michael Frayn, in his novel "Headlong", imagines a lost panel from the 1565 "Months" series resurfacing unrecognised, which triggers a mad conflict between an art (and money) lover and the boor who possesses it. Much thought is spent on Bruegel's secret motives for painting it. In his book "American Barricade", Danniel Schoonebeek references several Brueghel paintings in his poem "Poem for a Seven-Hour Flight", notably in the lines: "I am the hounds in Brueghel / do you know
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include women and minority writers, but should be a haven in which these writers can use their writing to voice their identity, a primary topic for the long poem genre. As stated above in "Concerns and Controversies", many female writers have felt that they have no place within the long poem genre because of its epic roots. The epic is a historically masculine genre and has not welcomed female writers or other authors who are not male and white. The long poem is often understood as the epic reborn, making it seem like a genre inaccessible to women. Women who
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Epic poetry An epic poem, epic, epos, or epopee is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily involving a time beyond living memory in which occurred the extraordinary doings of the extraordinary men and women who, in dealings with the gods or other superhuman forces, gave shape to the moral universe that their descendants, the poet and his audience, must understand to understand themselves as a people or nation. 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 into use in the nineteenth
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Tolstoy was a novelist of the realist school who considered the novel to be a framework for the examination of social and political issues in nineteenth-century life. "War and Peace" (which is to Tolstoy really an epic in prose) therefore did not qualify. Tolstoy thought that "Anna Karenina" was his first true novel. After "Anna Karenina", Tolstoy concentrated on Christian themes, and his later novels such as "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" (1886) and "What Is to Be Done?" develop a radical anarcho-pacifist Christian philosophy which led to his excommunication from the Russian Orthodox Church in 1901. For all the
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"Pistole", "Driadeo d'amore", and "Ciriffo Calvaneo". The poem "Morgante" is composed of 28 "cantari" (chapters) written in ottava rima. The subject was loosely derived from the Carolingian epic tradition, but Pulci drew many characters and motives also from the popular poems usually sung by storytellers in Florence's piazzas and developed a rich series of comic and parodistic episodes. The work was commissioned by Lucrezia Tornabuoni, Lorenzo Medici's mother. The poem in progress was read at the Medicis' court, where the public appreciated the funny characters, partly new, partly recreated from the epic tradition. Popular Florentine humour, bourgeois way of thinking
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