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id: 17445
title: Bearslayer A free translation from the unrhymed Latvian into English heroic verse
author: Pumpurs, Andrejs
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  Once again, time passes while Bearslayer studies at the Castle of Bearslayer fights back and holds the old man in times, appears in human form and greets Bearslayer, saying that the Bearslayer has spent the night in the castle, and the old man One evening, later, Laimdota reads to Bearslayer from the ancient Bearslayer grants her her life he fights demons and giants, not people released, Bearslayer sees Koknesis and Laimdota! however Bearslayer, Koknesis, Laimdota and Spidala decide to leave. the way Koknesis and Spidala tell Bearslayer and Laimdota about this moment Bearslayer appears, together with Koknesis, Laimdota and Bearslayer and Laimdota, as well as Koknesis and Spidala, are Bearslayer lifts up the Black Knight, but each time the German kicks Twelve witches entered in the Devil''s Pit. Soon bold Bearslayer had regained his will, Laimdota tells Bearslayer how the Devil sank the castle But thoughts like these Bearslayer gave no place.-


id: 14019
title: The Harvard Classics, Volume 49, Epic and Saga With Introductions And Notes
author: nan
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  _In the year 778 A.D., Charles the Great, King of the Franks, returned And he said to the king, "May God you save, In the other half shall Count Roland reign. "Gan," said the Emperor, "draw thou near: "My lords," said Ganelon, "ye shall hear." King Marsil''s cheek the hue hath left, "Sword," he said, "thou art clear and bright; "I shall never love you," Count Roland cried, Said Roland, "Our battle goes hard, I fear; "Our men have battle," he said, "on hand." King Karl and the Franks around him hear. "O God!" said Roland, "is this the end That he bless King Karl and France the fair, "Lords, my barons," said Karl the king, "I see that thou hast not detained the men," says Conaire. not fasting tonight, for ''tis thou art the best king that has come into thine shall escape from the place into which thou hast come, save what


id: 13983
title: The Book of the Epic: The World''s Great Epics Told in Story
author: Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline)
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  forces, and the main events of the first nine years of the Trojan War. The Iliad (of which a synopsis is given) follows this epic, taking up aid the Trojans, the poet relates her death at the hand of Achilles, The course of this day''s fighting is anxiously watched by old King _Book I._ Homer''s second great epic covers a period of forty-two days. _Book VII._ Having left Ulysses behind her, Nausicaa returns home, time the men pleaded to return home, Ulysses told his hostess he must having borne sons to gods or to famous heroes. son to escape while there was yet time, Aeneas, on reaching home, moved by love, forsook her place in heaven to bid him serve as Dante''s Promising to do so in return for the man''s story, Dante learns folk epic relates how Hagan, son of a king, was carried off at seven


id: 16506
title: Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and the Essay on Heroic Poetry (second edition, 1697)
author: Wesley, Samuel
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  Nature of Epic, and that double, Fable and Poem: The Matter, some one In forming an Heroic-Poem, the first thing they tell us we ought to do, is the Fable and Soul of the Poem: And this he thinks Virgil did in this rather than true History, as the Matter of an Heroic Poem; and, if I as the Essential Fund and Soul of the principal Action in an Epic Poem. of being an Heroic Poem, because the Subject thereof is a true History. Heroic Poem; and the great Art of Thought and Expression lies in this, even Virgil''s, his Thoughts and Expressions appear stronger than his, tho'' an Heroic Poem, and has many great and beautiful Thoughts; but at the same use of his Thoughts in this following Work; his Poem being the most Now the Subject being so fit for a good Heroic Poem, I shall have the less


id: 20406
title: Epic and Romance: Essays on Medieval Literature
author: Ker, W. P. (William Paton)
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  characters, epic is mere history or romance; the variety and life of In the different kinds of Northern epic literature--German, English, In some epic poems belonging to an heroic age, and not to a time of hard on the old stories of the gods when men come to appreciate the epics are in the same case as the old English poems which, like the great prose works of the world--the story of Njal and his sons. The poem of the death of Ermanaric is a version of the story told by the work which is common to tragedy and epic--the story, the plot. _Heiðreks Saga_, belonging to the story of Angantyr; besides the poem The epic poetry of the Germans came to an end in different ways and at in its own way; and the later kinds of story in the old Northern The story proceeds like an Icelandic Saga, through


id: 2388
author: nan
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  Abstaining from a work by right prescribed Such an one acts from "passion;" nought of gain Saying, "Tis right to do!" that is "true " act Quit of debates and doubts, his is "true" act: Of body, mind, or speech, evil or good, Knowledge, the thing known, and the mind which knows, Good is the steadfastness whereby a man For life''s sake, and the love of goods to gain, And Sudras, O thou Slayer of thy Foes! His natural duty, Prince! For every work hath blame, as every flame Against thy will, when the task comes to thee There lives a Master in the hearts of men With all thy soul Trust Him, and take Him for thy succour, Prince! And--as thou wilt--then act! Give Me thy heart! Thy soul from all its sins! Hath come unto me, by Thy favour, Lord! [FN#28] I omit two lines of the Sanskrit here, evidently interpolated by

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  The Song Celestial; Or, Bhagavad-Gîtâ (from the Mahâbhârata) Being a discourse between Arjuna, Prince of India, and the Supreme Being under the form of Krishna


id: 1719
title: The Ballad of the White Horse
author: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
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  "The wise men know all evil things Like a high tide from sea. The King went gathering Wessex men, The King went gathering Christian men, "Come not to me, King Alfred, Save always for the ale: Like a little word come I; His fruit trees stood like soldiers King Alfred stood and said: And the man was come like a shadow, They roared like the great green sea; Till the world was like a sea of tears Shall stand up like a tower, Yet by God''s death the stars shall stand King Alfred was but a meagre man, Till God shall turn the world over "But some see God like Guthrum, But I see God like a good giant, Came like a bad king''s burial-end, Shall slide like landslips to the sea Was a great light like death, "The high tide!" King Alfred cried. That bore King Alfred''s battle-sword


id: 58
title: Paradise Regained
author: Milton, John
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  This man of men, attested Son of God, For know, thou art no son of mortal man; All Heaven and Earth, Angels and sons of men. Thou shouldst be great, and sit on David''s throne, 240 But, if thou be the Son of God, command But thou art serviceable to Heaven''s King! Wilt thou impute to obedience what thy fear To thee not known, whence hast thou then thy truth, What doubt''st thou, Son of God? Know''st thou not that my rising is thy fall, But I will bring thee where thou soon shalt quit And dar''st thou to the Son of God propound Though Sons of God both Angels are and Men-"Fair morning yet betides thee, Son of God, Of men at thee, for only thou here dwell''st. All men are Sons of God; yet thee I thought 520 Therefore, to know what more thou art than man,


id: 8072
title: National Epics
author: Rabb, Kate Milner
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  Long on the river''s cooling brink hast thou been sporting in thy joy. Thy mother''s fainting spirits sink in fear for thee; but thou, my boy, Turn thou on me, whose fated day is come, thy all-consuming rage!'' "''Was not thy mother once, my son, than life itself more dear to thee? Who now shall soothe like thee, my son, with fondling hand, my aged To-morrow forth we all will set,--thy mother and myself and thou: So, sorrowing for thy son shalt thou at life''s last close repose in the few years promised the man who dares to meet the gods in battle, the "The gods have granted thee high rank and rule, but thou hast no I hear thy cries as thou art borne away!" clasp thy loved hands and exchange true words with thee?" "So long as the heavens revolve, may thou be established in thy place! That, with God''s pleasure, thou live-out thy day;


id: 10716
title: The Epic An Essay
author: Abercrombie, Lascelles
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  structure of epic poetry, the Heroic Age must be capable of producing admitted, that the great unifying poet who worked on the epic material from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and means that epic poetry has kept up with the development of human life. answerable to the greatness of epic matter than the "authentic" poems. the epic poet''s image of life''s significance is of merely contemporary By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art like _Paradise Lost_ in the preceding poems, and epic poetry has done Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. But epic poetry cannot be written as Homer composed it; whereas it must laid on epic poetry since its beginning with Homer; Milton''s task was way, the Miltonic significance, as all the epics in between Homer and


