Talk:Epic poetry
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I cut this external link - he is only asking for *voluntary* contributions, but still, it doesn't belong on the list of epics. --MichaelTinkler
external links:
- Gothinia Chronicle (http://Gothinia.com) - Epic Poems of Human Experience
I don't think this qualifies as epic:
- 1910s: The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien (fictive mythology of Middle-earth)
Is there somewhere else it can go? Maybe List of books Tolkien wrote before and as background for Lord of the Rings? Ouch, my head hurts. Atorpen 23:52 Jan 25, 2003 (UTC)
As it certainly does fit the dictionary definition, I assume you mean it doesn't qualify as notable epic poetry. While that's debatable, based on the popularity of Tolkien's works I'd have to answer yes.
On a side note, that other category would more correctly be List of books Tolkien's publisher wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole, forcing him to write the Lord of the Rings instead :-). Mkweise 00:24 Jan 26, 2003 (UTC)
- A moot point; it doesn't count as poetry either way.
People seem to be missing the point: The Silmarillion is written entirely in prose. Epic or not, popular or not, it's not epic poetry, and so this is the wrong page for it.
--- I can't find anything on The Law of Fives by Tristan Parker, cited as a 21st century epic. I'm not confident enough about it to remove it, though.
I have deletes The Law of Fives and Ballad of the White Horse: the former because I can find no evidence of its existence, the latter because it is a narrative poem, not an epic. The Silmarillion is not a poem at all. Bmills 10:29, 22 Dec 2003 (UTC)
I have also removed Dante and Spenser, as their poems were allegories, not epics. Bmills 10:40, 22 Dec 2003 (UTC)
I've changed the statement that the Mahabharata is the largest literary work in hiistory. The two sites stated below show that the tibetan Epic of Gesar (which currently has no record in wikipedia) is the largest (three times the size of the Mahabharata).
http://www.tibet-china.org/newbook/englishhtml/gesare.html http://web.utk.edu/~jftzgrld/MBh1Home.html
Risk one 03:38, 21 Mar 2004 (UTC)
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Wouldn't Dante's Divine Comedy qualify as an epic poem? I always have considered it as such.
--- 1316 is a very precise date for the writing of Mahabharata. Any evidence for this? Zeimusu 13:43, 2004 Oct 31 (UTC)