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  • 81The Bridge (long poem) — The Bridge , first published in 1930, is Hart Crane s first, and only, attempt at an American long poem. (Its primary status as either an epic or a series of lyrical poems remains contested; recent criticism tends to read it as a hybrid, perhaps… …

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  • 82The Second Coming (poem) — The Second Coming is a poem by William Butler Yeats first printed in The Dial (November 1920) and afterwards included in his 1921 verse collection Michael Robartes and the Dancer . The poem uses religious symbolism to illustrate Yeats anguish… …

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  • 83beast epic — (beast fable, Tierdichtung)    Medieval beast epics, like the earlier fables of Aesop and others, were linked series of tales revolving around animals that talked and behaved like human beings. Often they were written in a mock epic style that… …

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  • 84The Seasons (poem) — This article is about the Lithuanian poem. For the poems by James Thomson, see James Thomson (poet). The Seasons (Metai) is the first Lithuanian poem written by Kristijonas Donelaitis around 1765–1775. It was published as Das Jahr in Königsberg,… …

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  • 85Fasti (poem) — Tiepolo s Triumph of Flora (ca. 1743), a scene based on the Fasti, Book 4[1] The Fasti is a six book Latin poem by Ovid believed to have been left unfinished when the poet was exiled to T …

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  • 86Venus and Adonis (Shakespeare poem) — Venus and Adonis is one of Shakespeare s three longer poems.Publication Venus and Adonis was entered into the Stationers Register on April 18, 1593; the poem appeared later that year in a quarto edition, published and printed by Richard Field, a… …

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  • 87Andreas (poem) — Andreas is an Old English poem, which tells the story of St. Andrew the Apostle, while commenting on the literary role of the hero . It is believed to be a translation of a Latin work, which is originally derived from the Greek story The Acts of… …

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  • 88Serbian epic poetry — (Српске епске народне песме) is a form of epic poetry originating in the Serbian lands, today s Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Croatia. The main cycles were composed by unknown Serb authors between the 14th and 19th centuries.… …

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  • 89Paterson (poem) — Paterson is a poem by influential modern American poet William Carlos Williams.The poem is composed of five books and a fragment of a sixth book. The five books of Paterson were published separately in 1946, 1948, 1949, 1951, and 1958, and the… …

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  • 90Old Ironsides (poem) — Old Ironsides is a poem written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., on September 16, 1830, as a tribute to the eighteenth century frigate USS Constitution. Thanks in part to the poem, she was saved from being decommissioned and is now the oldest… …

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