英语词汇“epical”造句的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

And going from his early naked-in-the-world self-portrait, to his epical, between-heaven-and-hell Venetians, to the sight of dozens of New York City students avidly adding their mark to a gallery wall, I could almost believe him. Art Review: ‘Pawel Althamer: The Neighbors’ Is at the New Museum 2014-02-13T20:22:19Z

Within certain limits, basically of middle-class interests and values, it’s epical. ‘Garry Winogrand,’ a Retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

“Cimarron,” screen transcription of Edna Ferber’s novel, achieves the revivification, an epical and human impression of the land rush days in Oklahoma. How to watch every Best Picture winner from 1930 through 1939 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z

Even prim President Thiers tried to kiss her and her indignation was epical. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z

But Lord Oxford's foible was to hold long discourses, and Mr. Pope truly said that he had an epical habit of beginning everything at the middle. Parson Kelly 2012-01-28T03:00:30.303Z

But, these blemishes notwithstanding, much of the sequel is truly epical in its grandeur. Legends & Romances of Spain 2012-01-10T03:00:18.593Z

There is the material for an epic in the rough, but without an idea in the mind of any poet of the time of actual epical treatment. The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition 2012-01-04T03:00:37.750Z

If platitudes were esteemed as high as rolling hexameters, Moon would have been among the epical poets. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z

As for the historical novel, there is Sentimental Education as a model, if you desire something epical in scale and charged with the modern ironic spirit. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z

It has often been remarked that the Arabs have no great epos like the Iliad or the Persian Sháhnáma, but only prose narratives which, though sometimes epical in tone, are better described as historical romances. A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z

With skilful illustration of lofty principles by significant details, all summed with simplicity and sympathy, three of the most miserable weeks ever endured by men were raised into epical dignity. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett 2011-10-12T02:00:38.787Z

Caxton exulted to print this epical romance; and at the same time he had the satisfaction of reproaching the “laggard” age. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z

Like the story of the Trojan War, the story of Gilgames attracted to it epical and mythological elements from all sides, and became a veritable treasure-house of Babylonian mythology. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z

Thus mediæval play is epical in its Rabelaisian plainness of speech. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z

Like all medieval romantic poetry, it is but a fragment—the portion of a cycle never wrought by intervention of a Homer into epical completeness. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z

It is because, while remaining substantially epical or narrative in character they may contain, here and there, dramatic situations, dramatic rhetoric, and dramatic converse. The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry 2011-02-26T03:00:51.130Z

If the prose Romances are not epics by the conventional code of the Stagyrite, at least they are epical; and some rude Homers sleep among these old Romancers, metrical or prosaic. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z

The surviving epical fragments of Icelandic composition are found thrown together in the Codex Regius, under the title of The Elder Edda, a most precious MS. discovered in the 17th century. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z

Knightly romances came once more into vogue, but the newborn didactic poetry contended vigorously against the supremacy of what was lyrical and epical. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z

Orlando was so rooted in the popular consciousness as a hero, that to have substituted for him another epical character would have been impossible. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z

With them came philosophical poems, such as those of Xenophanes and Empedocles; the epical history of Herodotus; the dramatic philosophy of Plato. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip"

On the other hand, in the romances of Reynard the Fox we have medieval apologues arranged in cycles, and attaining epical dimensions. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral"

In King John the lyrical, epical, satirical and pathetic chords are all present, if they are scarcely harmonized. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z

The existence of old Homer was denied, and the origin of the epical poem sought in the peculiarities of a popular life which existed 3000 years ago. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II.

We have seen how tenaciously the Italians clung to memories of ancient Rome, and how their history deprived them of that epical material which started modern literature among the northern races. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z

In the islands, the tale has an epical form, and is chanted in a poem of twenty-six stanzas. Custom and Myth New Edition

At no time was it found convenient to combine lyrical verse with instruction, and therefore from the beginning of literature the didactic poets have chosen a form approaching the epical. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus"

Originally instituted for the drama, it received in Milton's hands an epical treatment, and has by authors of our own day been used for idyllic and even for lyrical compositions. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History

The text ends with the line, “Oh praise Innini,” the literary note characteristic of epical compositions. Sumerian Liturgies and Psalms

It achieved a truer epical unity, and was composed in a richer, more romantic style. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z

But they are all makers of anxious mosaics; never do they carve the block; exquisite miniaturists, yet lack the big brush work and epical sweep of the preceding generation. Ivory Apes and Peacocks

Stevenson's Poems of American History and Stedman's Anthology give abundant illustration of almost every aspect of that epical struggle. The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures

The modern poetical literature of Denmark opens with a collection of epical and lyrical poems from the Middle Ages, which are loosely connected under the title of Kjæmpeviser or Heroic Ballads. Grimhild's Vengeance Three Ballads

The pictures on these vases, also painted in stripes, extend the mythological subject-matter beyond the Trojan cycle to the oldest epical myths, each story being represented in its consecutive phases. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

Dramatic, mythical and epical elements are almost wholly wanting in the genuine lyrics of the people. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z

So powerful is his imagination that he can paint the hatred of his epical Elektra or the half-mad dreams of Don Quixote. Ivory Apes and Peacocks

A remarkable circumstance, nevertheless, while encouraging this epical impulse, deprived its most important creations of the external epical viii form. The Battaile of Agincourt

The spacious and stately characteristics of the Hudson from the Palisades to the Catskills are as epical as the loveliness of the Rhine is lyrical. The Greatest Highway in the World Historical, Industrial and Descriptive Information of the Towns, Cities and Country Passed Through Between New York and Chicago Via the New York Central Lines. Based on the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Not a few of the chief matters in Greek literature—the epical grandeur of Homer, the tragic principles of the three poets, and so forth—made themselves, at first or second hand, deeply felt. A History of Elizabethan Literature

Even Boccaccio alluded contemptuously to chivalrous romance, as fit reading only for idle women; and when he attempted an epical poem in octave stanzas, he chose a tale of ancient Greece. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z

And then there were certain natures to whom the trifle was epical; to whom the inconsequent was invariably magnified nine diameters; and having made a mistake, would die rather than admit it. The Pagan Madonna

This is to say that Drayton’s genius was naturally not so much epical as lyrical and descriptive. The Battaile of Agincourt

Lachmann follows Wolf in ascribing the whole constructive process to Peisistratus and his associates, at the period when the creative epical faculty is admitted to have died out. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847

The poetic instinct�one might call it "epical" or "lyrical," for it is both these�is far more dominant in our "greatest dramatist" than any dramatic conscience. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions

If we seek for epical unity, in a romance so loosely put together from so many divers sources, we can find it in the treason of Gano. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z

Much fault has been found with this story for various reasons, but it gives a certain relief as well as epical fullness to the movement of the Book. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary

But the most remarkable point of contact between Drayton and Theocritus is that both are epical as well as pastoral poets. The Battaile of Agincourt

The original material never attained the grand epical form; the process was interrupted by the advancement of learning, by ecclesiastical influences, and by vast social changes. Studies in Literature and History

He stands utterly apart from those epical heroes "that delight in war." Stray Studies from England and Italy

From epical and narrative literature to poems written for the people upon contemporary events and public history, is not an unnatural transition. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z

Now it is clear that Homer is not a Demodocus, since the latter is not an epical builder, but a simple singer of separate lays for the occasion. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary

“It is impossible to think of any person or class of people in America that these epical lyrics, these laughter-fetching, tear-provoking ballads will fail to please.” Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy."

“Perhaps, my dear, you write lyrics, and your cousin hath more fancy for epical poetry.” The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne)

He paid passing veneration to Van Horne—when from the slant of his remark I surmised that he was critical even in his admiration for that epical character. The Masques of Ottawa

There was at least something akin to the primitive and epical romances of that period in the tale of those two mighty friends, one of whom struck too hard and slew the other. A Short History of England

Thus we distinguish two very different stages of consciousness in early Greek poetry: the ballad-making and the epical, Homer being the supreme example of the latter, and Demodocus an instance of the former. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary

"Saul," as an epical subject, must have haunted his mind for years. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865

It is part of the limited greatness of this side of Byzantine art that there was no room in it for the gaiety and humour of the later medieval schools; all was solemn, epical, cosmic. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"

It was a wonderful film full of epical energy and primitive beauty; picturing one of the few kinds of people in Canada that Mackenzie had never been able to link up to civilization. The Masques of Ottawa

Another chapter in his broad, epical delineation of the American spirit ... A Certain Rich Man

We shall find that this Fourth Book stands in the front rank of Homeric poetry for depth and suggestiveness, if not for epical lucidity. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary

This alternation of dramatic form and dialogue with epical narrative, interlarding the tragedy in parts with portentously long explanatory comment, is perhaps the most unlucky novelty which was ever attempted in verse. Studies in Early Victorian Literature

The proportions of the work are epical rather than dramatic; but indeed it is difficult to class, so exuberant is the vitality which fills and overflows all limits. An Introduction to the Study of Browning

And he was not always in the austere and epical mood. Artist and Public And Other Essays On Art Subjects

His poetry is mainly narrative, but whether epical or lyrical in form, is always less lyric in essence than Rossetti's. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century

Speak not, then, of epical machinery in Homer, the word is misleading to the last degree, is indeed libellous, belieing the poet in the very soul of his art. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary

It is plain that Charles Dickens had nothing of that epical gift which gave us Tom Jones and Ivanhoe. Studies in Early Victorian Literature

When I was floored I had just got to a part which disclosed the epical influence of Mr. Joseph Conrad. Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911

The odyssey of the coal that was lifted high out of ships on the tide beyond, to fall ultimately into the furnaces within, scarcely touched by the hand-wielded shovel, was by itself epical. Your United States Impressions of a first visit

Perception, emotion, thought, action, find in descriptive, lyrical, reflective, dramatic, and epical poetry their immediate apocalypse. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series

In the old Greek epical ages, the subject gave rise to many poems, which are, however, at bottom but one, and this we still possess, while the others are lost. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary

Here the specific terms are used according to the epical manner instead of the general term "face." 232-233. Selections from Wordsworth and Tennyson

He knew that what he was doing was a thing grandiose, unique, epical; a history-making thing; a thing that would outlive marble and the gilded monuments of princes. A Christmas Garland

But for them also, the objects of popular bhakti, Ram and Krishna, are as much epical as religious heroes. New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments

Topelius, who collected eighty epical fragments of the Kalevala, spent the last eleven years of his life in bed, afflicted with a fatal disease. Reviews

There are pages of epical breadth and power, passages of elemental vigour and ferocity—passages, again, of an exquisite tenderness and poignancy. Edward MacDowell

In the islands, the tale has an epical form, and is chanted in a poem of twenty-six stanzas. Custom and Myth

Besides, its earliest poems are of a purely lyrical and not of an epical type. The Book of the Epic

This poem has often been called an epic, and certainly there are many epical characteristics in it. The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature

In the Mass we have a dramatic action pantomimically presented, in part aided by lyrical and epical elements. A History of Pantomime

Brangwyn is never exquisite, though he is often poetic, even epical. Promenades of an Impressionist

Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations

One final word must be said regarding the interest of epical material. The Book of the Epic

It might take rank next to the epical parting of Hector and Andromache. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)

It has been said of him that his lyrics were epical; in a measure it is true, and it is true in the same measure that his death was epical. The Insurrection in Dublin

Long poetical bulletins were written, in the epical form, to describe the battles and transactions of the war. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 56, June, 1862

But another class of myths, more popular and more captivating, grew up under the hands of the poets—myths purely epical, and descriptive of real or supposed past events. The Symbolism of Freemasonry

The number of physical contests in which he was chief actor renders his volume almost epical in character. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859

He was essentially a lyrical as distinguished from an epical or dramatic poet. Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts

Such is the stately soaring of the epical Muse, the Muse of ideal history. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860

Within the bounds of his epical scheme, which was always factitious, every person was so natural that his characters seemed like the characters of biography rather than of fiction. Emile Zola

The lieutenants of Lord Raglan in the Crimea have long since passed away, but in artistic epical presentment they retain their place around him. Biographical Study of A.W. Kinglake

It was designed that the large central panels possess a cosmical, an epical, or an elemental quality, and that the smaller panels on either side deal with abstractions, such as truth, nature or beauty. The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Most Beautiful Achitectural Compositions of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition

In dealing with this difficulty, Schiller departs from his ordinary method of concentration and allows himself to be guided by the epical character of Tschudi's narrative. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller

Beneath the brooding spirit of a new civilization signs of life had at length appeared, and Europe became vocal in every part with fantastic poems, lyrical in the South, epical in the North. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860

Motte, as celebrated in his own time as he is forgotten in ours, was lyricist, fabulist, dramatic orator, epical even after a certain fashion. Initiation into Literature

He discovered that not only the story of some heroic person, but that of any man might be epical; that the way to heaven was not outside the world, but through it. Among My Books Second Series

On the one hand the epical, a realm of the most riotous activity of thought; on the other, the annalistic and genealogical, bald and bare to the last degree, a mere skeleton. Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.

The national epic of Finland, the Kalevala, or Place of Heroes, stands midway between the purely epical structure, as exemplified in Homer, and the epic songs of certain nations. National Epics

But as a poem may have lyrical qualities without being a lyric, so a poem may have epical qualities without being an epic. The Epic An Essay

Nearer to us came Tennyson, possessing varied inspiration, epical, lyrical, elegiac poet, always exalted and pure, approaching the classical, and himself already a classic. Initiation into Literature

Literature has in Sienkiewicz a great poet—epical as well as lyrical. So Runs the World

The latter introduced, in a time of literary poverty, a wide range of new subjects for epical treatment,—the life of German peasants, with their simple, healthy, vigorous natures undepraved by a spurious civilization. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 02, December, 1857

The poem, which swells into twenty-six cantos, is in such repute with the Italian critics, that Quadrio does not hesitate to rank it "among the best epical productions of the age." The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 2

The cosmopolitan cataloguer, the man who made inventories almost epical, is the one man to whom the Fair would have been a magnificent inspiration. Without Prejudice

TURGENEV.—Turgenev, less epical than Gogol, was also studious of local habits and dexterous in describing them. Initiation into Literature

In philosophy, in poetry,—lyrical, epical, dramatic,—in sculpture, in statesmanship, in ethics, in literature, in civilization,—where is there another Greece? The Truth about Jesus : Is He a Myth?

They would have been grandiose, epical; their stories would have been histories of culture. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism

Short as it is, it has been called an epical poem in the manner of Homer, and a dramatisation of history in the manner of Shakespeare. Essays on Russian Novelists

Wolfram von Eschenbach wrote the version of the Quest of the Holy Grail which inspired Wagner's "Parsifal" and which is morally the most exalted epical form which that legend ever received. A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music

Very obscure in origin, no doubt proceeding from the opprobrious jests exchanged by the lower classes in mirthful hours, it was at first freely fantastical, composed in dialogue, oratorical, lyrical, satirical, even epical at times. Initiation into Literature

He sonnets to perfection, but the epical air does not fill his nostrils. Chopin : the Man and His Music

He attained his fame only upon the publication of his amazing, epical novel, "The Duel"—which, just like "YAMA," is an arraignment; an arraignment of militaristic corruption. Yama: the pit

In fact, up to the present time, this current alone has received attention from the epical poet, the annalist, the historian, and the sociologist. Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution

Is it not also epical when man with one wild engine strikes a distant station? The Man Who Was Thursday, a nightmare

We feel it is epical when man with one wild arrow strikes a distant bird. The Man Who Was Thursday, a nightmare

Wagner sought in the epical rehabilitation of a vanished Valhalla a surcease from the world-pain. Chopin : the Man and His Music

单词	epical
例句	epical And going from his early naked-in-the-world self-portrait, to his epical, between-heaven-and-hell Venetians, to the sight of dozens of New York City students avidly adding their mark to a gallery wall, I could almost believe him. Art Review: ‘Pawel Althamer: The Neighbors’ Is at the New Museum 2014-02-13T20:22:19Z Within certain limits, basically of middle-class interests and values, it’s epical. ‘Garry Winogrand,’ a Retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z “Cimarron,” screen transcription of Edna Ferber’s novel, achieves the revivification, an epical and human impression of the land rush days in Oklahoma. How to watch every Best Picture winner from 1930 through 1939 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z Even prim President Thiers tried to kiss her and her indignation was epical. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z But Lord Oxford's foible was to hold long discourses, and Mr. Pope truly said that he had an epical habit of beginning everything at the middle. Parson Kelly 2012-01-28T03:00:30.303Z But, these blemishes notwithstanding, much of the sequel is truly epical in its grandeur. Legends & Romances of Spain 2012-01-10T03:00:18.593Z There is the material for an epic in the rough, but without an idea in the mind of any poet of the time of actual epical treatment. The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition 2012-01-04T03:00:37.750Z If platitudes were esteemed as high as rolling hexameters, Moon would have been among the epical poets. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z As for the historical novel, there is Sentimental Education as a model, if you desire something epical in scale and charged with the modern ironic spirit. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z It has often been remarked that the Arabs have no great epos like the Iliad or the Persian Sháhnáma, but only prose narratives which, though sometimes epical in tone, are better described as historical romances. A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z With skilful illustration of lofty principles by significant details, all summed with simplicity and sympathy, three of the most miserable weeks ever endured by men were raised into epical dignity. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett 2011-10-12T02:00:38.787Z Caxton exulted to print this epical romance; and at the same time he had the satisfaction of reproaching the “laggard” age. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Like the story of the Trojan War, the story of Gilgames attracted to it epical and mythological elements from all sides, and became a veritable treasure-house of Babylonian mythology. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z Thus mediæval play is epical in its Rabelaisian plainness of speech. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Like all medieval romantic poetry, it is but a fragment—the portion of a cycle never wrought by intervention of a Homer into epical completeness. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z It is because, while remaining substantially epical or narrative in character they may contain, here and there, dramatic situations, dramatic rhetoric, and dramatic converse. The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry 2011-02-26T03:00:51.130Z If the prose Romances are not epics by the conventional code of the Stagyrite, at least they are epical; and some rude Homers sleep among these old Romancers, metrical or prosaic. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z The surviving epical fragments of Icelandic composition are found thrown together in the Codex Regius, under the title of The Elder Edda, a most precious MS. discovered in the 17th century. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Knightly romances came once more into vogue, but the newborn didactic poetry contended vigorously against the supremacy of what was lyrical and epical. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z Orlando was so rooted in the popular consciousness as a hero, that to have substituted for him another epical character would have been impossible. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z With them came philosophical poems, such as those of Xenophanes and Empedocles; the epical history of Herodotus; the dramatic philosophy of Plato. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" On the other hand, in the romances of Reynard the Fox we have medieval apologues arranged in cycles, and attaining epical dimensions. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" In King John the lyrical, epical, satirical and pathetic chords are all present, if they are scarcely harmonized. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z The existence of old Homer was denied, and the origin of the epical poem sought in the peculiarities of a popular life which existed 3000 years ago. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. We have seen how tenaciously the Italians clung to memories of ancient Rome, and how their history deprived them of that epical material which started modern literature among the northern races. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z In the islands, the tale has an epical form, and is chanted in a poem of twenty-six stanzas. Custom and Myth New Edition At no time was it found convenient to combine lyrical verse with instruction, and therefore from the beginning of literature the didactic poets have chosen a form approaching the epical. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" Originally instituted for the drama, it received in Milton's hands an epical treatment, and has by authors of our own day been used for idyllic and even for lyrical compositions. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History The text ends with the line, “Oh praise Innini,” the literary note characteristic of epical compositions. Sumerian Liturgies and Psalms It achieved a truer epical unity, and was composed in a richer, more romantic style. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z But they are all makers of anxious mosaics; never do they carve the block; exquisite miniaturists, yet lack the big brush work and epical sweep of the preceding generation. Ivory Apes and Peacocks Stevenson's Poems of American History and Stedman's Anthology give abundant illustration of almost every aspect of that epical struggle. The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures The modern poetical literature of Denmark opens with a collection of epical and lyrical poems from the Middle Ages, which are loosely connected under the title of Kjæmpeviser or Heroic Ballads. Grimhild's Vengeance Three Ballads The pictures on these vases, also painted in stripes, extend the mythological subject-matter beyond the Trojan cycle to the oldest epical myths, each story being represented in its consecutive phases. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life Dramatic, mythical and epical elements are almost wholly wanting in the genuine lyrics of the people. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z So powerful is his imagination that he can paint the hatred of his epical Elektra or the half-mad dreams of Don Quixote. Ivory Apes and Peacocks A remarkable circumstance, nevertheless, while encouraging this epical impulse, deprived its most important creations of the external epical viii form. The Battaile of Agincourt The spacious and stately characteristics of the Hudson from the Palisades to the Catskills are as epical as the loveliness of the Rhine is lyrical. The Greatest Highway in the World Historical, Industrial and Descriptive Information of the Towns, Cities and Country Passed Through Between New York and Chicago Via the New York Central Lines. Based on the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Not a few of the chief matters in Greek literature—the epical grandeur of Homer, the tragic principles of the three poets, and so forth—made themselves, at first or second hand, deeply felt. A History of Elizabethan Literature Even Boccaccio alluded contemptuously to chivalrous romance, as fit reading only for idle women; and when he attempted an epical poem in octave stanzas, he chose a tale of ancient Greece. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z And then there were certain natures to whom the trifle was epical; to whom the inconsequent was invariably magnified nine diameters; and having made a mistake, would die rather than admit it. The Pagan Madonna This is to say that Drayton’s genius was naturally not so much epical as lyrical and descriptive. The Battaile of Agincourt Lachmann follows Wolf in ascribing the whole constructive process to Peisistratus and his associates, at the period when the creative epical faculty is admitted to have died out. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 The poetic instinct�one might call it "epical" or "lyrical," for it is both these�is far more dominant in our "greatest dramatist" than any dramatic conscience. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions If we seek for epical unity, in a romance so loosely put together from so many divers sources, we can find it in the treason of Gano. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Much fault has been found with this story for various reasons, but it gives a certain relief as well as epical fullness to the movement of the Book. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary But the most remarkable point of contact between Drayton and Theocritus is that both are epical as well as pastoral poets. The Battaile of Agincourt The original material never attained the grand epical form; the process was interrupted by the advancement of learning, by ecclesiastical influences, and by vast social changes. Studies in Literature and History He stands utterly apart from those epical heroes "that delight in war." Stray Studies from England and Italy From epical and narrative literature to poems written for the people upon contemporary events and public history, is not an unnatural transition. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Now it is clear that Homer is not a Demodocus, since the latter is not an epical builder, but a simple singer of separate lays for the occasion. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary “It is impossible to think of any person or class of people in America that these epical lyrics, these laughter-fetching, tear-provoking ballads will fail to please.” Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy." “Perhaps, my dear, you write lyrics, and your cousin hath more fancy for epical poetry.” The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne) He paid passing veneration to Van Horne—when from the slant of his remark I surmised that he was critical even in his admiration for that epical character. The Masques of Ottawa There was at least something akin to the primitive and epical romances of that period in the tale of those two mighty friends, one of whom struck too hard and slew the other. A Short History of England Thus we distinguish two very different stages of consciousness in early Greek poetry: the ballad-making and the epical, Homer being the supreme example of the latter, and Demodocus an instance of the former. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary "Saul," as an epical subject, must have haunted his mind for years. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 It is part of the limited greatness of this side of Byzantine art that there was no room in it for the gaiety and humour of the later medieval schools; all was solemn, epical, cosmic. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" It was a wonderful film full of epical energy and primitive beauty; picturing one of the few kinds of people in Canada that Mackenzie had never been able to link up to civilization. The Masques of Ottawa Another chapter in his broad, epical delineation of the American spirit ... A Certain Rich Man We shall find that this Fourth Book stands in the front rank of Homeric poetry for depth and suggestiveness, if not for epical lucidity. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary This alternation of dramatic form and dialogue with epical narrative, interlarding the tragedy in parts with portentously long explanatory comment, is perhaps the most unlucky novelty which was ever attempted in verse. Studies in Early Victorian Literature The proportions of the work are epical rather than dramatic; but indeed it is difficult to class, so exuberant is the vitality which fills and overflows all limits. An Introduction to the Study of Browning And he was not always in the austere and epical mood. Artist and Public And Other Essays On Art Subjects His poetry is mainly narrative, but whether epical or lyrical in form, is always less lyric in essence than Rossetti's. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century Speak not, then, of epical machinery in Homer, the word is misleading to the last degree, is indeed libellous, belieing the poet in the very soul of his art. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary It is plain that Charles Dickens had nothing of that epical gift which gave us Tom Jones and Ivanhoe. Studies in Early Victorian Literature When I was floored I had just got to a part which disclosed the epical influence of Mr. Joseph Conrad. Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 The odyssey of the coal that was lifted high out of ships on the tide beyond, to fall ultimately into the furnaces within, scarcely touched by the hand-wielded shovel, was by itself epical. Your United States Impressions of a first visit Perception, emotion, thought, action, find in descriptive, lyrical, reflective, dramatic, and epical poetry their immediate apocalypse. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series In the old Greek epical ages, the subject gave rise to many poems, which are, however, at bottom but one, and this we still possess, while the others are lost. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary Here the specific terms are used according to the epical manner instead of the general term "face." 232-233. Selections from Wordsworth and Tennyson He knew that what he was doing was a thing grandiose, unique, epical; a history-making thing; a thing that would outlive marble and the gilded monuments of princes. A Christmas Garland But for them also, the objects of popular bhakti, Ram and Krishna, are as much epical as religious heroes. New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments Topelius, who collected eighty epical fragments of the Kalevala, spent the last eleven years of his life in bed, afflicted with a fatal disease. Reviews There are pages of epical breadth and power, passages of elemental vigour and ferocity—passages, again, of an exquisite tenderness and poignancy. Edward MacDowell In the islands, the tale has an epical form, and is chanted in a poem of twenty-six stanzas. Custom and Myth Besides, its earliest poems are of a purely lyrical and not of an epical type. The Book of the Epic This poem has often been called an epic, and certainly there are many epical characteristics in it. The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature In the Mass we have a dramatic action pantomimically presented, in part aided by lyrical and epical elements. A History of Pantomime Brangwyn is never exquisite, though he is often poetic, even epical. Promenades of an Impressionist Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations One final word must be said regarding the interest of epical material. The Book of the Epic It might take rank next to the epical parting of Hector and Andromache. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) It has been said of him that his lyrics were epical; in a measure it is true, and it is true in the same measure that his death was epical. The Insurrection in Dublin Long poetical bulletins were written, in the epical form, to describe the battles and transactions of the war. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 56, June, 1862 But another class of myths, more popular and more captivating, grew up under the hands of the poets—myths purely epical, and descriptive of real or supposed past events. The Symbolism of Freemasonry The number of physical contests in which he was chief actor renders his volume almost epical in character. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859 He was essentially a lyrical as distinguished from an epical or dramatic poet. Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts Such is the stately soaring of the epical Muse, the Muse of ideal history. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 Within the bounds of his epical scheme, which was always factitious, every person was so natural that his characters seemed like the characters of biography rather than of fiction. Emile Zola The lieutenants of Lord Raglan in the Crimea have long since passed away, but in artistic epical presentment they retain their place around him. Biographical Study of A.W. Kinglake It was designed that the large central panels possess a cosmical, an epical, or an elemental quality, and that the smaller panels on either side deal with abstractions, such as truth, nature or beauty. The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Most Beautiful Achitectural Compositions of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition In dealing with this difficulty, Schiller departs from his ordinary method of concentration and allows himself to be guided by the epical character of Tschudi's narrative. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Beneath the brooding spirit of a new civilization signs of life had at length appeared, and Europe became vocal in every part with fantastic poems, lyrical in the South, epical in the North. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 Motte, as celebrated in his own time as he is forgotten in ours, was lyricist, fabulist, dramatic orator, epical even after a certain fashion. Initiation into Literature He discovered that not only the story of some heroic person, but that of any man might be epical; that the way to heaven was not outside the world, but through it. Among My Books Second Series On the one hand the epical, a realm of the most riotous activity of thought; on the other, the annalistic and genealogical, bald and bare to the last degree, a mere skeleton. Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. The national epic of Finland, the Kalevala, or Place of Heroes, stands midway between the purely epical structure, as exemplified in Homer, and the epic songs of certain nations. National Epics But as a poem may have lyrical qualities without being a lyric, so a poem may have epical qualities without being an epic. The Epic An Essay Nearer to us came Tennyson, possessing varied inspiration, epical, lyrical, elegiac poet, always exalted and pure, approaching the classical, and himself already a classic. Initiation into Literature Literature has in Sienkiewicz a great poet—epical as well as lyrical. So Runs the World The latter introduced, in a time of literary poverty, a wide range of new subjects for epical treatment,—the life of German peasants, with their simple, healthy, vigorous natures undepraved by a spurious civilization. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 02, December, 1857 The poem, which swells into twenty-six cantos, is in such repute with the Italian critics, that Quadrio does not hesitate to rank it "among the best epical productions of the age." The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 2 The cosmopolitan cataloguer, the man who made inventories almost epical, is the one man to whom the Fair would have been a magnificent inspiration. Without Prejudice TURGENEV.—Turgenev, less epical than Gogol, was also studious of local habits and dexterous in describing them. Initiation into Literature In philosophy, in poetry,—lyrical, epical, dramatic,—in sculpture, in statesmanship, in ethics, in literature, in civilization,—where is there another Greece? The Truth about Jesus : Is He a Myth? They would have been grandiose, epical; their stories would have been histories of culture. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism Short as it is, it has been called an epical poem in the manner of Homer, and a dramatisation of history in the manner of Shakespeare. Essays on Russian Novelists Wolfram von Eschenbach wrote the version of the Quest of the Holy Grail which inspired Wagner's "Parsifal" and which is morally the most exalted epical form which that legend ever received. A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music Very obscure in origin, no doubt proceeding from the opprobrious jests exchanged by the lower classes in mirthful hours, it was at first freely fantastical, composed in dialogue, oratorical, lyrical, satirical, even epical at times. Initiation into Literature He sonnets to perfection, but the epical air does not fill his nostrils. Chopin : the Man and His Music He attained his fame only upon the publication of his amazing, epical novel, "The Duel"—which, just like "YAMA," is an arraignment; an arraignment of militaristic corruption. Yama: the pit In fact, up to the present time, this current alone has received attention from the epical poet, the annalist, the historian, and the sociologist. Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution Is it not also epical when man with one wild engine strikes a distant station? The Man Who Was Thursday, a nightmare We feel it is epical when man with one wild arrow strikes a distant bird. The Man Who Was Thursday, a nightmare Wagner sought in the epical rehabilitation of a vanished Valhalla a surcease from the world-pain. Chopin : the Man and His Music
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