Epic Poetry

Epic poetry served as a vehicle for the transmission of cultural information in primary oral cultures. The format of epic poetry developed as an effective method of transmission because it could accommodate memory aids such as repetition, meter, somatic gestures, and an oral encyclopedia of stock phrases. These aids to memory were necessary because it is the human memory which can store and retrieve cultural information. This paper will address the use of these mnemonic devices in epic poetry.

http://courses.dce.harvard.edu/~humae105/fall97/sbecker01.htm

Mnemonic Devices in the Epic Poetry of Primary Oral Cultures

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=2615

Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry

http://www.reformed.org/webfiles/antithesis/v2n2/ant_v2n2_epic.html

Milton's Redemption of Epic Poetry

http://www.auburn.edu/~downejm/hyperepos.html

Epic on the Internet

http://www.theoi.com/Kronos/Kalliope.html

http://newman.baruch.cuny.edu/digital/2000/c_n_c/c_01_epic/oral.htm

EPIC POETRY: ORAL NARRATIVE VERSE

http://home.earthlink.net/~markdlew/SerbEpic/

Serbian Epic Poetry

http://rocr.keenspace.com/courtlypoem.html

Courtly Manners Epic Poetry

http://www.keyworlds.com/e/epic_poetry.htm

Epic Poetry Links

http://www.epicpoetry.com/

http://91.1911encyclopedia.org/E/EP/EPIC_POETRY.htm

 

http://gt.webvis.net/index2.htm

Silly Epic Poetry of Nigel Poh & Gerald Tan

http://www.geocities.com/bernjay/poem.html

The Toddeia

http://www.poetry-portal.com/styles10.html

http://www.public.asu.edu/~jacquies/epics.htm

The Epic Tradition

http://www.archaeonia.com/arts/poetry/epic.htm

EPIC POETRY

http://www.bartleby.com/211/0302.html

Teutonic Epic Poetry