Books & the Arts / From Elon Musk to Jordan Peterson, a certain strand of conservatism has recruited the poetry of Homer and Dante in their culture war. Orlando Reade In September 2023, the ...

Yes, epic poetry is back -- and it's going to continue to make billions because it's gone viral. Instead of one old blind guy memorizing colossal tales, we're crowdsourcing our favorite myths ...

Now that the weather is warming, it’s time for the epic-length poems to be found, ‘Cause it’s National Poetry Month, just as sure as there’s piled-up snow on the ground. It’s nice out! It’s raining!

In England, An Effort To Preserve Ancient, Epic Assyrian Poetry : Parallels Driven to save his culture, an ethnic Assyrian living in Britain is recording ancient tales of adventure sung by modern ...

A modern example of one such poem is the 1999 epic All Star, written by the bard Smashmouth. Here we will interpret the message of this piece and understand why this song must be sung until ...

It runs to more than 3,000 lines of verse and is the longest epic poem in Old English. Now, Beowulf - which documents the eponymous hero's battles with a monster and a dragon - will be made into a ...

From Elon Musk to Jordan Peterson, a certain strand of conservatism has recruited the poetry of Homer and Dante in their culture war. Juan de la Corte’s The Fire of Troy, found in the collection ...