What is Epic?
Epic A long narrative poem in elevated stature presenting characters of high position in adventures forming an organic whole through their relation to a central heroic figure and through their development of episodes important to the history of a nation or race.
9 characteristic of Epic
1. It opens in medias res.
- Iliad (9th c. BCE) and the Odyssey (9th c. BC), by Homer
John Dryden (9 Aug 1631 – 30 April 1700), nicknamed Town-Bayes, an influential English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who dominated the literary life of Restoration England.
Born in the village rectory of Aldwincle, Northamptonshire. The eldest of 14 children of Eramus Dryden and Mary Pickering – an Parliamentary supporting family with Puritan learnings.
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I am mad for it to be in contact with me
this "contact" begins the poem's first catalogue as "Images and perceptions rush in free association from the unconscious, and the poet sees and feels as would never be possible with intellectual control" (175).
- Born on 9th December 1608.
- His family was wealthy.
- During the tour of the Continent
and upon his return to England, John was planning out poetic epics and tragedies
- He had a pretty strange schedule.
He woke at four every morning and
listened to his assistant reading the Bible to him, in the original Hebrew.
- Died on 8 November 1674.
A college friend of John Milton fro
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- 형식적 측면을 주로 가리키는 문학의 한 장르.
- 일정한 형식에 의하여 통합된 언어의 울림 ·리듬 ·하모니 등의 음악적 요소와 언어에 의
한 이미지 ·시각 등 회화적 요소에 의해 독자의 감각이나 감정에 호소하고 또는 상상력
을 자극하여 깊은 감명을 던져 주는 것을 목적으로 하는 문