Epic Poetry: A Comprehensive Study: English Literature - Softcover

Ahmad, Shabbir

Softcover

ISBN 10: 6208429153 ISBN 13: 9786208429157

Verlag: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2025

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Epic poetry is one of the oldest and most influential literary forms, chronicling heroic deeds, grand battles, and moral struggles across cultures. This book explores epic poetry’s history, characteristics, major poets, themes, literary devices, metrical structures, and legacy. It traces the evolution of epic poetry from oral traditions like The Iliad and Beowulf to literary masterpieces such as Virgil’s Aeneid, Dante’s Divine Comedy, and Milton’s Paradise Lost.Key themes like fate vs. free will, war and heroism, divine intervention, and the hero’s journey are analyzed alongside poetic techniques such as epic similes, elevated diction, and foreshadowing. The book also examines metrical patterns, including dactylic hexameter, alliterative verse, and blank verse, and explores rhyme schemes like terza rima and heroic couplets.Finally, the book highlights how the epic tradition continues to influence modern literature, fantasy, and film, proving that epic storytelling remains timeless in shaping cultural identity and artistic expression.

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Dr. Shabbir Ahmad, Ph.D. in Development Studies, is a Research Officer at the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad. With master's degrees in Sociology, English Literature, Political Science, and Education, he specializes in rural livelihoods, urbanization, and gender empowerment. A prolific researcher, educator, and mentor.

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• Verlag: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 6208429153
• ISBN 13: 9786208429157
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 120
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