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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
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 ...
Romantic epic is a term used to designate works such as Morgante, Orlando Innamorato, Orlando Furioso and Gerusalemme Liberata, which freely lift characters, themes, plots and narrative devices from the world of prose chivalric romance.
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 ...
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.
List of world folk-epics; World Tales This page was last edited on 8 December 2024, at 04:22 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Articles relating to epic poetry, lengthy narrative poems, typically about the extraordinary deeds of extraordinary characters who, in dealings with gods or other superhuman forces, gave shape to the mortal universe for their descendants. Articles about individual epic poems are categorized in Category:Epic poems.
The Epic of Manas [a] is a lengthy and traditional epic poem of the Kyrgyz people of East and Central Asia. Versions of the poem which date to the 19th century contain historical events of the 18th century, though Kyrgyz tradition holds it to be much older. Manas is said to be based on Bars Bek, the first khagan of the Kyrgyz Khaganate.