What would an American epic be like? And the first thing... is that it would celebrate the American self, the I. Poetry and national unity: Kenneth Price, an American literature professor and ...

dynastic epic. It told of families and their origins. The poet’s goal was to place individual heroic achievement inside a larger story about the life of a clan or bloodline over time. Epic poetry ...

and their limits, as well as those on linguistics and on the relationships between poems. The account of why epic poets retained some Aeolic formulae is very clear.' Bryn Mawr Classical Review ...