epic
Epic is a solemn literary genre, a long narrative poem of folklore or heroic merit, which covers historical events, ethnicity, religion or legends. Albert Lord and Milman Parry argue that the classic epic is basically an oral tradition. In the text has not yet appeared, the epic was originally pure dictation records, in the process of communication, the audience listened to the epic, will use the oral form of the epic will be handed down from generation to generation, and added to the plot, and finally finishing, processing, written Become a unified work. Such epic representatives are Homer's epic works "Iliad" and "Odyssey". And the other is the literary epic of conscious literary writings written by literary writers with specific ideas. The representative of this epic is Virgil's Aeneas and John Milton's Paradise Lost. ...