Word: epic
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Drama," by Charles H. Caffin; "Renaissance of the English Drama," by Henry Arthur Jones; "Shamrock Land," by Plummer F. Jones; "Charles Dickens," by Frederic G. Kitton; "A History of Spanish Literature," by James Fitz-Maurice Kelly; "The Spanish People," by Martin A. S. Hume; "The Rise of the Greek Epic," by Gilbert Murray; "The American College," by Abraham Flexner; "Justice and Liberty," by G. L. Dickinson; "The Wooing of Calvert Parks," by L. E. Richards; "The Man From Home," by Booth Tarkington and H. L. Wilson, Ph.D...
...progress in which there were many famous men, among whom he was one of the greatest. His life can be divided into three parts: his early years as a student and scholar; his share in the struggles of the day; and his retirement and the writing of his great epic poem. Milton went to college to become a minister in the Anglican Church, but he never carried out this intention for he believed that the people should rule in religious matters, not the bishops. He joined the Presbyterian Church but as that did not conform to his ideas he left...
Forum--"A Prose Epic of Marriage," F. T. Cooper...
...century, said Mr. Murray, the pressure of the Persian army on the Ionic coast, caused the literary, as well as the military, supremacy to pass from Ionia to Attica, and as a result, the authentic recitation of the Iliad was also transferred. About this time the decay of the epic and the birth of tragedy marked the beginning of a new epoch...
Generation after generation of poets steeped itself in this Epic spirit and each gave itself up to the tradition of its predecessors. No one dreamed of vying with Homer, but only of serving and exalting him. After all these various traditions had been handed down, it probably fell to the lot of some great poet to combine them into one great work. In reading this work we must overlook the inconsistencies, and regard it in a spirit of sympathetic imagination, for behind it is an intensity of imagination, not merely of one great poet, but the accumulated emotion of generations