James McWilliams answers questions about Frank Stanford in a compelling, readable biography full of exquisite, yet not ...

All Day Permanent Red: The First Battle Scenes of Homer’s Iliad RewrittenBy Christopher LogueFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 53 pages, $18CuspBy Jennifer GrotzHoughton Mifflin, 66 pages, $12 paperAs ...

“Pedagogically, it’s a neat tool to teach compression,” she said in an e-mail. “Especially for my undergrads, who write these long epic poems.” Meitner said she isn’t opposed to long ...

Tom Breen photo. Bennett Lovett-Graff. On Thursday night, Bennett Lovett-Graff, George Kulp, and J. Kevin Smith smuggled two epic poems into the Institute Library, disguised as 20th-century American ...

The Epic Cycle, also called the Trojan Cycle because it narrates events related to the Trojan War, is a collection of eight poems composed in dactylic hexameter, the traditional type of verse of the ...

Born in 1897 into a nomad family of Kazaks, MUKHTAR AUEZOV is the author of more than twenty plays , many short stories, and a four-volume novel about the famous Kazak hero Abai.

The poem is divided into forty-six cantos, each containing a variable number of eight-line stanzas. The complete work is 38,736 lines long, making it one of the longest poems in European literature.

CAN an epic poem, composed more than 2,000 years ago and transcribed in an ancient language that only a handful of people can read, thrive in the age of Twitter? In India, yes. And not just one ...