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Five Sonnets from ‘The Gift of Life’ by Amanda Hall

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February 8, 2021
Art, Beauty, Culture, Epic, Poetry
7 Comments
. “The Gift of Life” is a formal epic poem of 600 original Shakespearean sonnets, a tale about a love that existed in life and art with equal force. The heroine of the tale goes to the great war of words...

The Aeneid, Book I, Lines 1-50: A Rhyming Translation by Len Krisak

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November 8, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Epic, Poetry, Translation
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The complete new translation can found from Hackett Publishing here. My poem sings of one man forced from Troy by war. Fate harried him to find a home on Latium’s shore— On some Lavinian littoral. By...

‘The American Revolution: An Epic Poem,’ Chapter III, by Andrew Benson Brown

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November 3, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Epic, Humor, Poetry
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The American Revolution: An Epic Poem Chapter I Chapter II by Andrew Benson Brown   Chapter III: The New-World Mercury The historical source material for the below installment is Paul Revere’s...

The Rebirth of Epic: A Review of James Sale’s HellWard

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August 22, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Epic, Essays, Poetry, Reviews
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by Andrew Benson Brown James Sale’s HellWard is the first volume of a planned trilogy entitled The English Cantos. If the quality of the current volume is any indication of the two forthcoming ones, then...

‘The American Revolution: An Epic Poem,’ Chapter II, by Andrew Benson Brown

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July 4, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Epic, Humor, Poetry
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The American Revolution: An Epic Poem Chapter I by Andrew Benson Brown   Chapter II: Thomas Jefferson in Hell On July Fourth of Eighteen Twenty-Six, Old Thomas Jefferson was sent to Hell In his...

‘HellWard Canto 11: Poetasters,’ From James Sale’s English Cantos

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May 8, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Epic, Humor, Poetry
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The Argument: The Poet, having escaped the HellWard of European and corrupt politicians, emerges into the penultimate HellWard depth where he, with his guide, Dante, meets the Poetasters from America and...

‘The Unknown Circle of Hell’ by Joseph S. Salemi

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April 8, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Epic, Humor, Poetry
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  Personae and scene: Vergil and Dante, somewhere in the mid-region of Hell. Dante: Honored Vergil, tell me where we’re going— It’s hard for me to take in what you’re showing Without some...

‘The American Revolution: An Epic Poem,’ Chapter I, by Andrew Benson Brown

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April 5, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Epic, Humor, Poetry
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  Chapter I Who sings of arms these days? Or even men? The seed of Adam’s tucked inside Eve’s apple, And sits not taking root—his defect’s been Apparent since equality’s long grapple. Poor...

What Happened to Narrative Poetry?—An Opinion Piece by James A. Tweedie

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March 5, 2020
Culture, Epic, Essays, Poetry, Short Stories
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This isn’t so much an essay as it is an opinion piece where I shoot off a few words in praise of narrative poetry or, in other words, poetry that tells a story. From Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, to...

A Poem for Black History Month: Excerpts from Two Mistakes, by Martin Hill Ortiz

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February 3, 2020
Culture, Epic, Poetry
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  Two Mistakes is a drama-length poem in metered verse for which I won second place in the Tom Howard / Margaret Reid Poetry Prize. The full work is posted here. It is based on Shakespeare's A...

Poetry, Beauty and the Modern Era: Essay by James Sale

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August 12, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Epic, Essays, Poetry
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  One interesting question is ‘why poetry, specifically?’ I am currently writing an ‘epic’ called The English Cantos, and I have chosen to write my epic in terza rima. There are many forms of...

Five Clerihews for the Iliad, by Raymond C. Roy

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August 5, 2019
Epic, Poetry
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A Clerihew is a four-line comic poem with a rigid rhyming scheme, aabb, but no metric requirements. It stands in stark contrast to the strict metric requirements with no rhyming scheme in the Iliad. This...

Rediscovering Homer’s ‘Odyssey’

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October 24, 2018
Beauty, Classical Literature, Culture, Epic, Essays, For Educators, Poetry
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by Evan Mantyk Where is Homer? The epic poems of the famous Greek bard were the cornerstone of education for young Socrates, Alexander the Great, Roman emperors, William Shakespeare, and every serious...

Translation of the Iliad’s Beginning by J. Simon Harris

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January 21, 2018
Classical Literature, Culture, Epic, For Educators, Poetry, Translation
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Homer’s Iliad I.1-47. Translation in the epic hexameter, the meter of the Greek. Sing of the wrath, my goddess, of Peleus’ son Achilles, doomed and destructive, which gave the Achaeans numberless...

10 Greatest Poems Written by John Milton

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November 7, 2017
Culture, Epic, Essays, Poetry
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John Milton (Born December 9, 1608 – died November 8, 1674) was an English poet of the late Renaissance period. He is most noted for his epic poem on the fall of Satan and Adam and Eve’s ejection from the...

Translation of Dante’s Inferno, Canto I and Poetry by J. Simon Harris

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July 14, 2017
Beauty, Culture, Epic, Poetry, Translation
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Dante’s Inferno, Canto I (Poem by Dante Alighieri / translation by J. Simon Harris in terza rima) In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself again in a dark forest, for I had lost the...

Review: Apocalypse by Frederick Turner, Ilium Press, 2016

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March 19, 2017
Epic, Essays, Poetry, Reviews
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By James Sale There are nine Muses of poetry, daughters of Zeus or some say Apollo, and the Titaness, Mnenosyne, goddess of memory, past and future. And of these nine the most important is Kalliope, she of...

‘A Chinese Epic, Chapter II’ by Evan Mantyk

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July 18, 2016
Epic, Human Rights in China, Poetry
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Chapter II: Visions and Dreams (For Chapter I click here.) THE band and locals, totaling fourteen, Retired to rest before the looming day. Some went to sleep but most in silence sat, Now meditating,...

‘A Chinese Epic, Chapter I’ by Evan Mantyk

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May 12, 2016
Beauty, Culture, Epic, Human Rights in China, News of Note, Poetry
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Chapter I: Arrival in Beijing Inspired by real events   Sing to me, Muse, who flies through Heaven’s realms, Sing of that night when terror swept the land And peaceful practitioners of Falun...

Review: The Parliament of Poets by Frederick Glaysher, Earthrise Press, 2012

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January 25, 2016
Epic, Essays, News of Note, Reviews
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By James Sale Frederick Glaysher claims to be an epic poet, and furthermore to have written an epic poem, The Parliament of Poets. This is a huge claim and an astonishing ambition. Is he? Has he? Before...

Excerpt of ‘God: An Epic’ by Brendan Dempsey + An Intro to New Classicism

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November 18, 2013
Beauty, Culture, Epic, Poetry
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BOOK I – CANTO I: EULOGY If I should sing the saga of our time— war with the Heavens, human anarchy, and how, with LORD and Angels hurtled down to darkness, chaos fractures all: our state and...




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