Epic poetry
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The epic is a broadly defined genre of narrative poetry, characterized by great length, multiple settings, large numbers of characters, or long span of time involved. As a result of this change in the use of the word, many prose works of the past may be retroactively called "epics" which were not composed or originally understood as such.
See also
- Albanian epic poetry
- Arabic epic literature
- Alpamysh
- Calliope (Greek muse of epic poetry)
- Caribbean epic poetry
- Chanson de geste
- Epic fiction
- History painting
- Mock epic
- Monomyth
- Narrative poetry
- National epic
- National poet
- Rimur
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