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Sang Sinxay, the most famous epic poem of Laos, was written around mid sixteenth century. [6] Franciade (French) by Pierre de Ronsard (1540s–1572) Os Lusíadas by Luís de Camões (c. 1572) [7] L'Amadigi by Bernardo Tasso (1560) La Araucana by Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga (1569–1589) La Gerusalemme liberata by Torquato Tasso (1575)
"The Road Not Taken" is a narrative poem by Robert Frost, first published in the August 1915 issue of the Atlantic Monthly, [1] and later published as the first poem in the 1916 poetry collection, Mountain Interval. Its central theme is the divergence of paths, both literally and figuratively, although its interpretation is noted for being ...
One of these is the multiplicity of misreadings by poets and critics—including T. S. Eliot, Northrop Frye, and Percy Shelley—of Milton’s epic poems, Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained. Poetic tradition remains a problematic concept, subject to the same flaws as the poetic canon.
Dactylic hexameter was the traditional meter of Greek epic poetry, the earliest extant examples of which are the works of Homer and Hesiod. [57] Iambic pentameter and dactylic hexameter were later used by a number of poets, including William Shakespeare and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, respectively. [58] The most common metrical feet in English ...
However, much secular poetry was also written in Latin. Some poems and songs, like the Gambler's Mass (officio lusorum) from the Carmina Burana, were parodies of Christian hymns, while others were student melodies: folksongs, love songs and drinking ballads. The famous commercium song Gaudeamus igitur is one example.
The poem Beowulf, which often begins the traditional canon of English literature, is the most famous work of Old English literature. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle has also proven significant for historical study, preserving a chronology of early English history.
A poetry collection is often a compilation of several poems by one poet to be published in a single volume or chapbook. A collection can include any number of poems, ranging from a few (e.g. the four long poems in T. S. Eliot 's Four Quartets ) to several hundred poems (as is often seen in collections of haiku ).