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An epic catalogue is a long, detailed list of objects, places or people that is a characteristic of epic poetry. Examples. In the Iliad: [1]
Khun Chang Khun Phaen, a Thai poem; Klei Khan Y Dam San, a Vietnamese poem; Koti and Chennayya and Epic of Siri, Tulu poems; Kutune Shirka, sacred yukar epic of the Ainu people of which several translations exist; Lay of Mouse-fate (Musurdvitha), a fantasy epic inspired by animal fable and Arthurian legend.
A poetry collection is often a compilation of several poems by one poet to be published in a single volume or chapbook. A collection can include any number of poems, ranging from a few (e.g. the four long poems in T. S. Eliot 's Four Quartets ) to several hundred poems (as is often seen in collections of haiku ).
Ancient authors most commonly referred to the poem as the Catalogue of Women, or simply the Catalogue, but several alternate titles were also employed. [4] The tenth-century encyclopedia known as the Suda gives an expanded version, the Catalogue of Heroic Women (Γυναικῶν Ἡρωϊνῶν Κατάλογος), and another late source, the twelfth-century Byzantine poet and grammarian ...
In his work Poetics, Aristotle defines an epic as one of the forms of poetry, contrasted with lyric poetry and drama (in the form of tragedy and comedy). [12] Epic poetry agrees with Tragedy in so far as it is an imitation in verse of characters of a higher type. They differ in that Epic poetry admits but one kind of meter and is narrative in form.
At least seventeen fragments of the poem are transmitted by quotations in other ancient authors and two second-century CE papyri, [4] but given the similarities between the Megalai Ehoiai and Catalogue of Women it is possible that some fragments attributed to the Catalogue actually derive from the less popular Hesiodic work. [5]
The Harvill Book of Twentieth-Century Poetry in English, 1999; Hinterland: Caribbean Poetry from the West Indies and Britain, 1989; Hyakunin Isshū (13th century) (one hundred people, one poem), compiled by the 13th-century Japanese poet and critic Fujiwara no Teika, an important collection of Japanese waka poems from the 7th through the 13th ...
Pieces listed according to the Zimmerman catalogue. Anthems [Z 1–65] Z 1, Verse Anthem, "Awake, put on thy strength" (c. 1682–85)