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en-wikipedia-org-6127		Epic poetry - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	2599	371	67	Another type of epic poetry is epyllion (plural: epyllia), is a brief narrative poem with a romantic or mythological theme. The first edition (1835) of the Finnish national epic poetry Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot The first epics were products of preliterate societies and oral history poetic traditions.[citation needed] Oral tradition was used alongside written scriptures to communicate and facilitate the spread of culture.[11] In these traditions, poetry is transmitted to the audience and from performer to performer by purely oral means. Milman Parry and Albert Lord have argued that the Homeric epics, the earliest works of Western literature, were fundamentally an oral poetic form. Epic: a long narrative poem in elevated style presenting characters of high position in adventures forming an organic whole through their relation to a central heroic figure and through their development of episodes important to the history of a nation or race. Media related to Epic poems at Wikimedia Commons	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6127.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6127.txt