#epic poem

We took Beowulf, the epic poem in Old English, and put it right together with John Gardner's contemporary retelling. If you bring it into today, we really feel that it has something very fresh to say now. ↗

— Julie Taymor

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With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

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My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

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Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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