Milton claims that epic poetry is the highest ambition for a poet and then he goes on to explain how it is that the epic poet should comport himself.
Homer's Iliad comes under the head of heroic or epic poetry.
The views of the Yi people on the history, religion and ethic reflected in their epic poetry of the world creation
The rights of the Yi women viewed from the epic poetry, mythology and folklore of the Yi people
Now in these two books we've seen Milton dig up and discard just about the entire tradition of epic poetry.
Milton claims that epic poetry is the highest ambition for a poet and then he goes on to explain how it is that the epic poet should comport himself. I love this.
Keats is referring to epic poetry when he mentions Homer' s ' proud demesne'.
Leviathan is to prose what Milton's Paradise Lost is to epic poetry.