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  Epic poetry - LoveToKnow Watches   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
From the dawn of Latin literature epic poetry seems to have been cultivated in Italy.
In Iceland, a new heroic literature was invented in the middle ages, and to this we owe the Sagas, which are, in fact, a reduction to prose of the epics of the warlike history of the North.
They form a curious transitional link between primitive and modern poetry; the literature of civilized Europe may be said to begin with them.
www.1911ency.org /E/EP/EPIC_POETRY.htm   (1707 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Spanish Language and Literature
His interest in the literature of the people is avouched also by a collection of their rhymed proverbs which he made.
Vices of style were, however, to become all too prominent and general in Spanish literature of the seventeenth century and to pervade verse and prose alike.
The literature of Spain has been greatly enriched by the modern Renaissance of the Catalan literature.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/14192a.htm   (9202 words)

  
 Bibliography Defined
Sheets printed before the error was noticed constitute the uncorrected state; sheets printed after it was caught constitute the corrected state.
Thus in the first Shakespeare folio of 1623, page 277 is incorrectly printed 273 in a few copies.
Clearly, the error was caught early in the pressrun, because most surviving copies have the correct page number.
www.bibsocamer.org /bibdef.htm   (1654 words)

  
 Shakespeare Authorship
Tom looks critically at Roger Stritmatter's Ph.D. dissertation in comparative literature, which took as its starting point the assumption that the Earl of Oxford really wrote Shakespeare's works.
There are only two portraits of Shakespeare which we can reasonably take as authentic: the monument in Stratford's Holy Trinity Church, and the engraving by Martin Droeshout on the title page of the 1623 First Folio.
Diana Price argues in her new book Shakespeare's Unorthodox Biography that he was not a writer.
www.shakespeareauthorship.com   (6376 words)

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