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On the Web
- Narrative Poems - A brief and basic definition, with an illustrative example, of the narrative poem.
- Bob Yantosca's Epic Poetry Quiz - A quick test of your knowledge of epic poetry ranging from "Beowulf" to Dante.
- SkylondaWorks Consulting and Desktop Publishing of Narrative Poetry - Desktop publishing of narrative poetry, including the author's Onegin-like Nineteenth-Century Friend in tetrameter sonnets.
- HyperEpos - Links to epic poetry, criticism, resources
- The Hero's Journey Internet Project - A UC Berkeley project bringing pre-modern history to life through the introduction of national heroic traditions, focussing on Sunjata, Ramayana, and Yamato.
- The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs - Translated by Eirikr Magnusson and William Morris.
- Lyrical Ballads - "This html e-text has been prepared by Richard Bear from the original edition of Lyrical Ballads, the Bristol imprint of 1798."
- Kavitanjali - Amateur poetry portal - Amateur Poetry Portal, multiple poets and poetic forms. Reader's Poems Published for free.
- Manas - An introduction to the Kyrgyz epic and its narrators, with references. [English/Russian]
Wikipedia Articles
- The Epic of Wo Bau-Sae - The Epic of Wo Bau-Sae (zh: wuu: 英雄史诗《华抱山》) is a ring of Wu Chinese long narrative verses found around the Tai Lake region in Southeastern China. The backdrop of the story is set in the Ming Dynasty, when the hero Wo Bau-Sae (Mandarin: Hua Baoshan) participated in a rebellion against Ming rule.
- Epic poetry - The epic is long, exalted narrative poetry, generally concerning a serious subject and details the heroic deeds and events important to a culture or nation.Michael Meyer, The Bedford Introduction to Literature, Bedford/St.
- Syntagmatic structure - Syntagmatic structure (structure of syntax) is "the mode of time-awareness which listeners are placed" such as 'narrative', 'epic', or 'lyrical'. Narrative structures feature a realistic temporal flow guided by tension and relaxation, privilege difference, and "as diegesis, songs speak to or address us by organizing a particular stretch of time into a conscious experience, and an experience of consciousness" (Cubitt 1984, p.
- Qissa-i Sanjan - The Story of Sanjan (also Qissa-i Sanjan or Kisse-i Sanjan) is an account of the early years of Zoroastrian settlers on the Indian subcontinent. In the absence of alternatives, the text is generally accepted to be the only narrative of the events described therein, and many members of the Parsi community perceive the epic poem to be an accurate account of their ancestors.
- The Outsider (Richard Wright) - The Outsider is a novel by Richard Wright, first published in 1953. The Outsider is Richard Wright's second installment in a story of epic proportions, a complex master narrative to show American racism in raw and ugly terms.