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Shahnameh, the national epic of Greater Iran and world's longest epic poetry written by one poet; Mem and Zin, a Kurdish folk and love epic; Sirat Bani Hilal, an Arabic epic recounting the journeys and conquests of the Bani Hilal tribe; One Thousand and One Nights, also known as "the Arabian Nights", is a collection of Middle Eastern folktales
George S. Patton – United States, general, commanded the Third United States Army during World War II, image popularized by the 1970 award-winning epic biographical war film Patton. Pedro I of Brazil – hero of Brazilian independence and hero of the Portuguese Civil War. Pemulwuy – Australia, an Aboriginal resistance leader.
IMO, the critical part of a folk-epic is the 'folk' aspect. I've always found that the best writing transcends the boundaries between prose and poetry, so if a people's weltanschauung plays a dominant role in the work, specific points of style like the distinction between prose and poetry matter a whole lot less.
Alan Lomax (/ ˈ l oʊ m æ k s /; January 31, 1915 – July 19, 2002) was an American ethnomusicologist, best known for his numerous field recordings of folk music of the 20th century.
The epic's full name is Sasna Tsrer (meaning "The Different Ones of Sassoun"). [7] In 1902, the prominent Armenian poet and writer Hovhannes Tumanyan penned a poem of the same name retelling the story of the David of Sassoun in a more modern Armenian language. [3] In 2012, UNESCO included the epic in their Intangible Cultural Heritage List. [1] [2]
The Kalevala (IPA: [ˈkɑleʋɑlɑ]) is a 19th-century compilation of epic poetry, compiled by Elias Lönnrot from Karelian and Finnish oral folklore and mythology, [1] telling an epic story about the Creation of the Earth, describing the controversies and retaliatory voyages between the peoples of the land of Kalevala called Väinölä and the land of Pohjola and their various protagonists ...
The New World by Frederick Turner (1985) Empire of Dreams by Giannina Braschi (1988) [14] Omeros by Derek Walcott (1990) Genesis by Frederick Turner (1990) Arundhati by Jagadguru Rambhadracharya (1994) Mastorava by A. M. Sharonov (1994) Astronautilía Hvězdoplavba by Jan Křesadlo (1995) The Descent of Alette by Alice Notley (1996) The Alamo ...
Literary Epic. As the years went by there was a need to preserve these folk epics in written form and attribute value to their authors. With this increased demand, the literary epic genre emerged. Literary epic shares similarities with folk epic, but instead of being in oral form, it is presented in a written format to ensure its survival ...