Essays about: "epic poetry"

Found 3 essays containing the words epic poetry.

  1. 1. The Nordic Odyssey : Homer’s Epic Poetry and the Norse Sagas: A comparative analysis supported by digital text analysis

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för medier och journalistik (MJ)

    Author : Martin Herskind; [2022]
    Keywords : Digital Humanities; Homer; The Odyssey; The Iliad; Norse Sagas; Snorri Sturluson; Text Analysis; Python; Orange3;

    Abstract : This thesis compares Homer’s Odyssey and Iliad with the Norse Sagas, the Young and Elder Edda. More specifically, it analyses, whether the Odyssey and Iliad should indeed derive from the Norse Sagas, which is a claim brought forth by Felice Vinci. READ MORE

  3. 2. Paradise Overcome A Secular Interpretation of Paradise Lost

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Pauliina Arvidsson; [2014-02-07]
    Keywords : engelska; John Milton; Paradise Lost; epic poetry; secularization; secular humanism; liberal humanism;

    Abstract : P.B. Shelley wrote that John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost “contains within itself a philosophical refutation of that system of which, by a strange and natural antithesis, it has been a chief popular support” (394). READ MORE

  4. 3. The Romantic Poet in the Imaginary Future - John Keats in the Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

    Author : Christian Gräslund; [2014]
    Keywords : Dan Simmons; The Hyperion Cantos; John Keats’spoetry and letters; intertextuality; empathy; beauty; love; humanism;

    Abstract : The four novels Hyperion, The Fall ofHyperion, Endymionand The Rise of Endymionconstitute the Hyperion Cantosby the American science fiction writer Dan Simmons. Thisgalactic-empire,epic,science fictionnarrative containsa plethora ofliterary references. The dominant part comes from the nineteenth-century Romantic poet John Keats. READ MORE