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...The Dawn and the Day, or, The Buddha and the Christ, Part 1 is a text similar to the epic poetry of Homer or, more accurately, classic Hindu texts, such as the Baghavad-Gita. - Summary written by not.a.moose...

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...short study of storytelling. It discusses things like unity of plot, reversal of situation, and character in the context of Greek tragedy, comedy and epic poetry. But it still applies today. It is especially popular with screenwriters as seen in many script gurus’ how-to books. (Summary by Robert Foster)...

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....27 b. From temporality to eternity: wisdom over the long term...........................................42 II. TIME IN GREEK TRAGIC POETRY AND IN THE EPIC POETRY OF HOMER. UNFINDABLE CIRCULAR TIME..........51 a. On fate, or tragic poetry as a technique for veiling time.............................................55 b. On the hero, or epic p...

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...Excerpt: This volume contains practically all that remains of the post- Homeric and pre-academic epic poetry. I have for the most part formed my own text. In the case of Hesiod I have been able to use independent collations of several MSS. by Dr. W.H.D. Rouse; otherwise I have depended on the apparatus criticus of the se...

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........................................................ 212 FRAGMENTS OF THE EPIC CYCLE ................................................................... ...e Epigrams of Homer” (both attributed to Homer). Various: Fragments of the Epic Cycle (parts of which are some- times attributed to Homer), fragments ... ...e (parts of which are some- times attributed to Homer), fragments of other epic poems attributed to Homer, The Battle of Frogs and Mice, and The Conte... ...ONTAINS practically all that remains of the post- Homeric and pre-academic epic poetry. I have for the most part formed my own text. In the case of He... ...NS practically all that remains of the post- Homeric and pre-academic epic poetry. I have for the most part formed my own text. In the case of Hesiod ... ...1 and 462-470, printed in the Oxford Text of 1912. Of the fragments of the Epic Cycle I have given only such as seemed to possess distinct importance ... ...dge. Sept. 9th, 1914. INTRODUCTION General The early Greek epic — that is, poetry as a natural and popu- lar, and not (as it became later) an artifici... ...lone are suitable for epic treatment. In its third period, therefore, epic poetry shows two diver- gent tendencies. In Ionia and the islands the epic ... ...truth, but we can, when we will, utter the truth’ (Theogony 26-27). Such a poetry could not be permanently successful, because the subjects of which i...

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...he final form was available in 1717 with the addition of Clarissa's speech on good humour. The poem satirizes a petty squabble by comparing it to the epic world of the gods. It was based on an incident recounted by Pope's friend, John Caryll. Arabella Fermor and her suitor, Lord Petre, were both from aristocratic recusant Catholic families at a period in England when under...

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...t a resolution on these questions by reviewing the ethnological history of the Hawaiian peoples as contained in their ancient traditions, rituals and epic poetry. It is the purpose of these articles to present the Hawaiian royal traditions unconfounded by the elements and theology of Christianity or the insidious influence of other cultural philosophies. It is our purpos...

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...The Song of Eternity, never before disclosed to the public, is a series of heroic epics and liturgies. The last time that it was recited in its entirety was at the necrological ceremonies attending the funeral of the beloved Prince William Charles Lunalilo, King of Hawaii and sixth of the Dynasty of Kameh...

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...1 Manners & Civility: From Wisdom Literature to Novels of Manners 3 Executive Director’s Message Regular Columns 4 Speak, Memory: The Orality of Epic Poetry 5 Hoist the Jolly Roger!: Pirates in Literature 6 Taj Mahal: A Tribute to Love 7 Cuban Missile Crisis 8 Honey, I’m Home! 9 The Three B’s: Entrenched in Musical Tradition 10 Big Dreams, Little Leagues 11 Su...

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...s early career, much like Virgil's, was spent writing pastoral and elegiac verse, but The Faerie Queene is his masterpiece, an unfinished allegorical epic intended to depict Aristotle's twelve moral virtues (twelve also being the number of books subsequently divided into twelve cantos for a proper epic), though he was only able to finish six. The poem is written entirely i...

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Epic Poem of Western Philosophy deconstructing the Philosophy Literature of Western Metaphysics.

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Epic Fantasy Narrative Poetry Verse Novel

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...Behind the Book Presents: Sacred Indian Texts - A Visual Series of Epic Indian Poetry Discover the stories behind history's greatest books. A World eBook Library Production...

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...Behind the Book Presents: Sacred Indian Texts - A Visual Series of Epic Indian Poetry Discover the stories behind history's greatest books. A World eBook Library Production...

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...Behind the Book Presents: Sacred Indian Texts - A Visual Series of Epic Indian Poetry Discover the stories behind history's greatest books. A World eBook Library Production...

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...Satire I A Justification for Satire Satire II Effeminate Rome Satire III Fleeing Rome Satire IV Mock-Epic Satire V Patron and Client Satire VI Don’t Marry Satire VII Patronage Satire VIII Rely On Your Own Worth Satire IX Patrons Again: A Dialogue Satire X The Vanity of Human Wishes Satire XI An Invitation...

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The epic poem of Aeneas of Troy, and the origins of Rome.

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...agavad Gita has been considered an important spiritual guidebook and has influenced many thought leaders in human history. The Gita is conversational poetry set in an epic battlefield where a family of cousins are engaged in a war for control of a kingdom. The Lord Almighty assumes the role of a charioteer for prince Arjuna who is about to fight his cousins led by Duryodha...

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...d prolix artist in many creations, he often succeeds to polish little gems in poetry, prose and theatre. Frankly and simply in expression, he becom... ...where the shock of matching, the contrasts, the oxymoron, the paradoxism in a poetry of great sensibility 8) . Florin Vasiliu agrees, citing C.M.Pop... ...e way of George Anca). 11 The eleven pages of the play are full of so much poetry that involuntary we remind of Ion Barbu, who concluded, basing... ...imself on scientific and literary creations, that mathematics, as well as the poetry, contribute to the world’s order and harmony. The paradoxes are ... ...ISM, theorized and then brilliantly applied to every literary genres- lyrical, epic and dramatic. We will not insist here on the two real phenomena, ... ...le could as well be named “Romanian/Oltenian verses”. In this way, the lyrico-epic character of the volume is, paradoxistly talking, a man without c... ...further on, because it represents the main “opposition” against the prosaism, epicallism, even textualism. From this point of view, Smarandache’s ob... ...- and tri! -logues) and in Nonroman are mixed almost all the literary genres (epic, lyrical, dramatic) and possible species: short story, fable, sto... ...(cit. work, p.38), distinguished the following features of postmodernism: the epicization of lyrical speech, the intertextuality, codes’ heterogenei...

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... to Know His World and Himself, and Elizabeth L. Einsenstein‘s specialized epic, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultura... ...the order of the bits to be memorized. Similar memory skills kept Western epics alive for centuries. Students warehoused memory To perpetuate ... ...lists of spaces with visual details to bring to mind thousands of lines of poetry. Church ritual and liturgy were passed down in the same manner. ... ...Tech siblings. . According to the son of Christopher Columbus, Polo’s epic travelogue aroused his father’s interest in the possibility of findin... ...rance. Combined genius, courage and tolerance In The Discoverers, his epic history of Man’s Search to Know the World and Himself, the late libra... ... Guillen, Michael. Five Equations that Changed the World: The Power and Poetry of Mathematics. New York: Hyperion, 1995. Hawke, David Freeman...

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... to Know His World and Himself, and Elizabeth L. Einsenstein‘s specialized epic, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultura... ...the order of the bits to be memorized. Similar memory skills kept Western epics alive for centuries. Students warehoused memory To perpetuate class... ...lists of spaces with visual details to bring to mind thousands of lines of poetry. Church ritual and liturgy were passed down in the same manner. A ... ...foTech siblings. . According to the son of Christopher Columbus, Polo’s epic travelogue aroused his father’s interest in the possibility of findin... ...lerance. Combined genius, courage and tolerance In The Discoverers, his epic history of Man’s Search to Know the World and Himself, the late libra... ... Guillen, Michael. Five Equations that Changed the World: The Power and Poetry of Mathematics. New York: Hyperion, 1995. Hawke, David Freeman...

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...do, I'll certainly encroach upon them. I'm not a poet, that's why I write poetry. I'm an anti-poet or non-poet. I thus came to America to re-build ... ...iterature from nothing! The poet is not a prince of ducks! The notion of "poetry" and its derivatives have become old-fashioned in this century, and ... ... Identification: <Non-A> is a better <A> than <A>. Example: Poetry is more philosophical than philosophy. f) Law of Joined Disjointedn... ...empiric. It is less scientific than psychology, but more scientific than poetry. Human is dependent and independent in the same time. I ... ...and synthesizing the Source of Cognition (Vedas, IV th century B.C.), the Epic (with many stories), and the Upanishads (principles of Hindu philosoph... ...>, and vice versa. Philosophy is a poetical science and a scientific poetry. There are three main types of humans: not only Nietzsche's "... ...ferentiations (Lossky, "World as an organic whole"). As in Ramayana epic, the neutrosophy adopts a skeptic attitude simultaneously rejecting a... ..."Bhagavad-Gita", found in the "Mah ābhārata", one of the ancient Sanskrit epics, Lord Krishna lays the complete knowledge of life to his pupil Arjun... ...s of Glencoe, New York, 1958. [ 3] Bailey, Cyril, "The Greek Atomists and Epicurus", Russell & Russell, Inc., New York, 1964. 84 [ 4] Berlin, Isa...