ENGL 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Print Culture, Dazed, Stoupe The Enemy Of Mankind
18 May 2012
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An epic poem, where there is a hero. There are 6 books that he finished, and we are reading the first book, the book of holiness. Each book has 12 cantos, or songs. This work is called a romantic epic: a fusion of genres from the get-go and also partakes another type of genre. Epic: a long narrative poem in a elevated style and the incidences it describes contributes to a unified whole, and its story is usually important in a formation of a nation or a race. Typically, there is one hero, and we are going to meet arthur, the main hero of the entire epic (appears in canto 7) An epic usually has one important hero of national significance who has a lot of valor. Supernatural epic poetry often has fantastical elements and forces in it. The poet will often begin with a proclamation of invocation to the muses: usually called an apostrophe.
