Poetry 3

Epic

(a long narrative poem about the adventures of a hero)

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       Traditional Epics                         Literary Epics

(ancient works from                                    (Poems that imitate

an oral tradition, recording                           traditional epics)  

 legendary history) 

e.g. the Anglo-Saxon epic                              e.g. John Milton's 

Beowulf                                                                              Paradise Lost

Beowulf Prologue said in Old English