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| | Epic poetry |
 | | It retells in a continuous narrative the life and works of a heroic or mythological person or group of persons. |
 | | In the West, the Iliad, Odyssey, and the Nibelungenlied; and in the East, the Mahabharata, Ramayana, and Shahnama are often cited as examples of the epic genre. |
 | | The composition of epic poetry, or of long poems in general, has become uncommon in the Western world since the early 20th century. |
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