𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜'𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗢𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗼𝘀" 𝗯𝘆 𝗗𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗸 𝗪𝗮𝗹𝗰𝗼𝘁𝘁 -

An epic poetic work of seven small volumes combined as quest, immigration challenge, and literary escape, multiple themes interweaving in probably Walcott's greatest work.

#books #bookreviews #bookworm #readreadread #tbr #tbrpile #tbrlist #quotes #reading #poetry #derekwalcott #epicpoetry #omeros #caribbeanliterature

Homer's introduction to The Odyssey:

It's quarter to three
There's no one in the place
Except you and me
So, set 'em up, Joe
I got a little story you oughta know

We're drinkin', my friend
To the end of a brief episode
Make it one for my baby
And one more for the road

You'd never know it
But buddy, I'm a kind of poet
And I got a lot of things to say
And when I'm gloomy
You simply gotta listen to me
'Til it's all talked away

#BartenderASongOrPoem
#HashTagGames #Homer_Poet #TheOdyssey #EpicPoem #EpicPoetry #Poetry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkwdkUXQ1yo

𝟯 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: “𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘂𝘀 𝗨𝗻𝗯𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱” 𝗯𝘆 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗰𝘆 𝗕𝘆𝘀𝘀𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲𝘆 -

Classic, yes, but Shelley's long poem works overhard to propound its argument amid a myth made melodrama.

#bookreviews #books #bookworm #readreadread #3words #percyshelley #percybyssheshelley #prometheus #prometheusunbound #poetry #romanticism #romanticpoetry #myth #epicpoetry

“I offer words to consider serious counsel how this wise ruler may win over deathdays if an end to sorrows ever will come forth a taming of torment time for revenge healing of heartbreak in this helpless land.”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/01/14/i-offer-words-to-consider-serious-counsel-how-this-wise-ruler-may-win-over-deathdays-if-an-end-to-sorrows-ever-will-come-forth-a-taming-of-torment-time-for-revenge-healing-of-heartbreak-in-this-help/

#book #comeForth #consider #deathdays #dragons #DragonsPoetry #end #EpicPoetry #FrederickRebsamen #healing #heartbreak #helplessLand #how #medieval #MedievalLiteraryCriticism #monsters #MonstersPoetry #NorseIcelandicSagas #offer #OldEnglishEpicPoetry #quote #revenge #Scandinavia #ScandinaviaPoetry #seriousCounsel #sorrows #taming #time #torment #winOver #wiseRuler #words

Beowulf: more than a poem, it’s a cultural battleground. Seamus Heaney’s 1999 translation? A masterstroke. He takes ancient Anglo-Saxon grit—think "feud-calloused hands"—and makes it raw, modern, and alive. It’s about slaying monsters, sure, but also what’s lost in the fight.

✨ He bridges Irish roots and English myth, dragging a thousand-year-old story into the now. That's not translation; that’s alchemy. Info in profile.
#Beowulf #SeamusHeaney #EpicPoetry
🔗 https://vikingsvssamurai.com/beowulf-a-new-verse-translation/

𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: "𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗟𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗱" 𝗯𝘆 𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 𝗠𝗶𝗹𝘁𝗼𝗻 -

Both spectacular reads after we get past Milton's narratological problem; and my take: Regained is the stronger work!

https://buff.ly/4i82hW2

#bookreviews #books #bookworm #readreadread #milton #johnmilton #paradiselost #paradiseregained #christianity #genesis #eden #theology #temptationsinthedesert #satan #eve #epicpoetry #blankverse

new #Neolatin publication (via @huss) on #Petrarch​s Africa: Huss, Bernhard, und Daniel Melde. 2024. „Der Dichter als Augenzeuge. Historizitätserwartungen in der Gattungstradition der Epik“. In Der Tumult der Anfänge und das Versickern am Ende, herausgegeben von Bernhard Huss, Bernd Roling, und Anita Traninger, 133–62. De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111624426-007.

#openAccess @neolatin #epicpoetry

𝟯 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: “𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗱” 𝗯𝘆 𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 𝗠𝗶𝗹𝘁𝗼𝗻 -

Far more brief than "Lost," Milton's later follow-up to the story of humankind's redemption focuses only on Christ's temptation in the desert and expands the devil's arguments in a fascinating lesson of morality, fully rounding out the themes from "Paradise Lost."

#books #paradiseregained #paradiselost #poetry #epicpoetry #christian #christianity #classicliterature

https://buff.ly/3Uc6gXx

𝟯 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: “𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗟𝗼𝘀𝘁” 𝗯𝘆 𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 𝗠𝗶𝗹𝘁𝗼𝗻 -

One of the most canonical works of Western literature, the beauty of Milton's verse endures, though close reads may still find his mores troubling at places.

#books #bookreviews #bookworm #readreadread #3words #johnmilton #milton #paradiselost #poetry #epicpoetry #christian #christianity #classicliterature

https://buff.ly/4f9Ex1p

Today's poem:

The Charge of the Light Brigade
- by Alfred Tennyson

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/762306084718428160/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade?source=share

#cavalry #Balaklava #battle #war
#EpicPoetry #Tennyson #blunder #stupidity #Crimea

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜'𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗢𝗱𝘆𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘆 - 𝗔 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗦𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗹" 𝗯𝘆 𝗡𝗶𝗸𝗼𝘀 𝗞𝗮𝘇𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘇𝗮𝗸𝗶𝘀 -

A massive tome of modern epic poetry, Kazantzakis thought of this as his greatest work, though he had written 𝑍𝑜𝑟𝑏𝑎 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑘 and 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐿𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑇𝑒𝑚𝑝𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡. This will take me a couple of months!

#NikosKazantzakis #theodysseyamodernsequel #epicpoetry

Epoch by Dave JIlk is science fiction infused with philosophy, psychology, and mythology, all brought together as an epic poem with extensive references. It is not recommended for casual consumption; in the words of Herman Melville, “read it if you can.”
#epicpoetry #books
https://www.amazon.com/Epoch-Poetic-Psy-Phi-Dave-Jilk-ebook/dp/B0DCGH3HG7/

July is Hermead Month because I wrote my epic of philosophers 16 July 2011 to 14 July 2018 to present lives and ideas of 26 ancient philosophers.

http://TinyUrl.com/HermeadEpic

#Hermead #HermeadDay #HermeadMonth #Epic #EpicPoem #EpicPoetry #Poetry

“Cain sired evil cunning man-killers banished from heartlove born in hatred giants and fiends jealous man-eaters long without penance.”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2024/06/11/cain-sired-evil-cunning-man-killers-banished-from-heartlove-born-in-hatred-giants-and-fiends-jealous-man-eaters-long-without-penance/

Read Linnea Axelsson's epic poem "Ædnan: An Epic" tonight.
https://amzn.to/3VW2naA
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Sprawling in scope and timing, but also deeply personal. Good stuff.
#books #reading #poems #poetry #EpicPoetry

Take a break from the hustle and bustle of daily life and savour the rich, lingering experience of Scott Andrew Bailey's long-form poems. These verses are a testament to the power of patience and reflection.

#poetry #epicpoetry

http://scottandrewbailey.com/2024/05/01/andervaynes-dream-and-other-poems-teaser/

The Iliad, or The Poem of Force
Simone Weil

"The true hero, the true subject, the center of the Iliad is force. Force employed by man, force that enslaves man, force before which man’s flesh shrinks away. "

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/simone-weil-the-iliad

#Iliad #PoemOfForce #Epic #EpicPoem #EpicPoetry #SimoneWeil

Poetry is the first form of literary expression in the world as evidenced by The Epic of Gilgamesh, the oldest piece of world literature. #History #Literature #EpicPoem #EpicPoetry #HistoryFacts https://www.worldhistory.org/collection/227/great-ancient--medieval-poetry/

Read Micah Ballard's epic poem "The Michaux Notebook" tonight.
https://amzn.to/3T4pDRZ
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Interesting. Kind of loose and sprawling, not unlike the jazz I had on in the background while reading it.
#books #reading #poems #poetry #EpicPoem #EpicPoetry

For many people, "epic poem" means epic story told in verse; think "The Odyssey." But Linnea Axelsson's epic poem "Ædnan: An Epic" is a real world story with political and social ramifications, as I learned when we did this exclusive interview.
https://paulsemel.com/exclusive-interview-aednan-an-epic-author-linnea-axelsson/
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#LinneaAxelsson #LinneaAxelssonInterview #LinneaAxelssonÆdnanAnEpic #LinneaAxelssonÆdnan #LinneaAxelssonAednanAnEpic #LinneaAxelssonAednan #Poems #Poetry #EpicPoetry #EpicPoems