| To kill one, whether or not with a crossbow, as in Coleridge's epic poem, was considered the ultimate omen of bad luck. |
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| Additionally, the cultural heritage has been immortalized in the famous epic poem Sonjara, sung by minstrels since the thirteenth century. |
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| We discover why the epic poem is considered one of the greatest works of the human spirit. |
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| Like Paradise Lost this piece is both a moral and political treatise and an epic poem. |
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| The hero El Cid, who became the subject of an epic poem, modeled these qualities. |
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| The editor in him couldn't resist trying to translate the great epic poem into English. |
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| He legitimated the cultivation of lyrical tropes, as the poet used them to enrich what is otherwise a lofty epic poem on the First Crusade. |
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| When first working with a client, Sheehan likes to film them reading the first few stanzas of the epic poem Casey at the Bat. |
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| The manners of the epic poem ought to be poetically good, but it is not necessary they be always morally so. |
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| By the seventh century, scribes had written down Anglo-Saxon Chronicles and the oral epic poem, Beowulf. |
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| The Canadian Bioscope Company, incorporated in Halifax in 1912, for the purpose of making a full-length feature film based on the epic poem. |
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| The Argonautica, his only surviving work, is an epic poem in hexameter verse, dedicated to the Emperor Vespasian. |
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| Christopher Marlowe's epic poem Hero and Leander, which is based on an ancient Greek myth, says more about the customs of contemporary England than of the ancient Greeks. |
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| The story was created as an epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1847 and was an instant success. |
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| The production is based on the epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow about a Native American named Hiawatha, a real man who lived some 500 years ago. |
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| Undoubtedly, the epic poem about his life, a key work in the Spanish literature, is, to some extent, responsible for it. |
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| The game is based on part one of the medieval epic poem, The Divine Comedy, commonly referred to as Dante's Inferno, by Dante Alighieri. |
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| According to 12th century epic poem, that horse preferred to drown rather than betray his master. |
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| The term 'kaban' features in the 1834 epic poem 'Pan Tadeusz' by Poland's national bard Adam Mickiewicz. |
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| The city's large reservoir is said to have been built by Raja Kuru, the ancestor of the Kauravas and Pandavas of the Hindu epic poem Mahabharata. |
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| But Bryant all but composed an epic poem about Jackson. |
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| Literary production of the antiquity includes the Cypria, an epic poem, probably composed in the late 7th century BC and attributed to Stasinus. |
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| John Milton borrowed this for his epic poem Paradise Lost and Miguel de Cervantes mentions a fantastic Trapobana in Don Quixote. |
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| In spring 1818 the poet John Keats spent several weeks in Teignmouth and completed his epic poem Endymion here. |
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| The Peloponnesian war is a proper subject for history, the siege of Athens for an epic poem, and the death of Alcibiades for a tragedy. |
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| The Polish national epic poem 'Pan Tadeusz' by Adam Mickiewicz, which tells the story of the nobility between 1811 and 1812, contains a good deal of information on the production, consumption and different types of mead. |
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| Novels, by which the reader is misled into another sort of pieasure opposite to that which is designed in an epic poem. |
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| He composed an epic poem about the first Punic War, in which he had fought. |
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| Virgil published his pastoral Eclogues, the Georgics, and the Aeneid, an epic poem describing the events that led to the creation of Rome. |
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| Shelley also encouraged Byron to begin an epic poem on a contemporary subject, advice that resulted in Byron's composition of Don Juan. |
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| It appears to derive from the place name Eidyn mentioned in the Old Welsh epic poem Y Gododdin. |
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| In Vergil's epic poem the Aeneid, limitless empire is said to be granted to the Romans by their supreme deity Jupiter. |
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| There is even a scene from the Persian epic poem the Shahnama representing Bahram Gur shooting an arrow while Azadeh plays the harp on the back of his horse. |
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| This is what explains the poignancy of Longfellow's epic poem about the tragic destiny of Évangéline, who was separated from the man she loved at the time of deportation and spent her life trying to find him. |
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| Subsequently altered, mythologized and then converted into an epic poem by the Song of Roland, this defeat has become the most popular legend in western Europe. |
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| The text of this Scripture is the 13th book in the great epic poem of Vedic literature, The Mahabharata, composed by the sage Veda-Vyasa, a contemporary of Lord Krishna, more than 5000 years ago. |
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| Incorporating these different traditions, Virgil created his masterpiece, the Aeneid, the Latin epic poem whose hero symbolized not only the course and aim of Roman history but also the career and policy of Augustus himself. |
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| The most famous works from this period include the epic poem Beowulf, which has achieved national epic status in Britain. |
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| Lucretius, in his On the Nature of Things, attempted to explicate science in an epic poem. |
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| Throughout the period, the lyric, ariel, historical, and epic poem was being developed. |
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| In the epic poem, Pound disregards literary genres, mixing satire, hymns, elegies, essays and memoirs. |
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| Gilbert arranged the original epic poem by Henry Hart Milman into a libretto suitable for the music, and it contains some original work. |
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| In 1867 Bell and Dandy published Morris's epic poem, The Life and Death of Jason, at his own expense. |
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| From 1865 to 1870, Morris worked on another epic poem, The Earthly Paradise. |
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| The epic poem transformed French King Henry IV into a national hero for his attempts at instituting tolerance with his Edict of Nantes. |
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| In 1937 Faber published, In Parenthesis, the epic poem based on his first seven months in the trenches. |
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| By the late period of the Ayutthaya Kingdom, it had attained the current shape as a long work of epic poem with the length of about 20,000 lines, spanning 43 samut thai books. |
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| Satan's status as a protagonist in the epic poem is debated. |
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| The Roman poet Virgil recounted this legend in his classical epic poem the Aeneid, where the Trojan prince Aeneas is destined by the gods to found a new Troy. |
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| It boasts some of the oldest pieces of literature in the Western world, such as the epic poem Beowulf, one of the oldest surviving written work in the English language. |
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| If we admit poetic lipograms, then a 610-letter portion of John Martin Crawford's 1888 translation of the Finnish epic poem The Kalevala may count. |
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