In 1590, Edmund Spenser also composed a very famous pastoral epic called The Faerie Queene, in which he employs the pastoral mode so as to accentuate the charm, lushness, and splendor of the poem's ( super ) natural world.

* Stephen King's eight-book epic The Dark Tower saga employs the number 19 in books The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger, The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla, The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah, The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower, and The Wind Through the Keyhole as a mysterious and important number.

Relayer has the same song format as 1972's Close to the Edge — a long epic on the first side, and two nine-minute pieces on the second — but employs a radically different musical style.

Edguy also employs lengthy and epic sections in almost every album.

Shorrock's contention is that the Dionysiaca employs a variety of narrative organizational principles and viewpoints, attempts to narrate all of classical mythology through the myths of Dionysus, and uses allegory and allusion to challenge his readers to draw meaning from his unconventional epic.

This is a pastoral epyllion in 414 hexameters which evokes the world of Theocritus and employs epic conventions for comic effect in a parody.

It is an epic poem told in historical perspective ; a story of epic events and of great people of a heroic past.

The story of Ulysses and Circe was retold as an episode in Georg Rollenhagen's German verse epic, Froschmeuseler ( The frogs and mice, Magdeburg, 1595 ).

In Lope de Vega's miscellany La Circe-con otras rimas y prosas ( Madrid 1624 ), the story of her encounter with Ulysses appears as a verse epic in three cantos.

Cerberus featured in many prominent works of Greek and Roman literature, most famously in Virgil's Aeneid, Peisandros of Rhodes ' epic poem the Labours of Hercules, the story of Orpheus in Plato's Symposium, and in Homer's Iliad, which is the only known reference to one of Heracles ' labours which first appeared in a literary source.

From 1975 to 1979, a Canadian progressive power trio, Rush, released three albums containing sidelong epics, regarded by some as concept albums ( though not actually concept albums by strict definition of the term ; that is, none of the other songs on the album have anything to do with each other or the 20-minute sidelong epic, so there is no pervasive concept or story ).

An epic ( from the Ancient Greek adjective ( epikos ), from ( epos ) " word, story, poem ") is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation.

One such epic is the Old English story Beowulf.

For quite some time, he had been planning to direct an epic movie named Megalopolis, a story about the aftermath and reconstruction of New York City after a mega-disaster, but after the city was hit by the real life disaster of September 11, the project was suddenly seen as being too sensitive.

It is probable, therefore, that the story of the Trojan War as reflected in the Homeric poems derives from a tradition of epic poetry founded on a war which actually took place.

The story of Dido and Aeneas derives from the original source in Virgil's epic the Aeneid.

Though some of the episodes of Jason's story draw on ancient material, the definitive telling, on which this account relies, is that of Apollonius of Rhodes in his epic poem Argonautica, written in Alexandria in the late 3rd century BC.

Joseph Campbell attempted to draw parallels between the story of Jonah and the epic of Gilgamesh, in which Gilgamesh obtains a plant from the bottom of the sea.

Lyric poetry is a genre that, unlike epic and dramatic poetry, does not attempt to tell a story but instead is of a more personal nature.

The story is epic and sweeping, encompassing and describing hundreds of civilizations, races and species on thousands of worlds.

* The story of Schroedinger's cat ( an epic poem ); The Straight Dope

The 35 minute epic tells the story of Link's evolution from child to hero.

Originally written in Hebrew as an epic poem, the story centers on Job, a perfectly just and righteous person.

In the late 1980s, they created the epic recording God in Three Persons, a story about the exploitation of two Siamese twins with healing powers by a male dominant force and The King & Eye, a surreal biography of Elvis Presley and the birth of rock and roll.

The scale and scope of the story is epic.

The story originates in the Ramayana, a Sanskrit epic from before the time of Christ.

In one type of story, the world is born from a world egg ; such stories include the Finnish epic poem Kalevala, the Chinese story of Pangu or the Indian Brahmanda Purana.

These long lists of objects, places, and people place the finite action of the epic within a broader, universal context.

Ugrasrava eventually composed the final Mahabharata, with both Vyasa's Jaya and Vaisampayana's Bharata embedded within the epic.

Assonance, where the use of similar vowel sounds within a word rather than similar sounds at the beginning or end of a word, was widely used in skaldic poetry, but goes back to the Homeric epic.

Ugrasrava eventually composed the Mahabharata, with both Vyasa's Jaya and Vaisampayana's Bharata embedded within the epic.

Nepali developed a significant literature within a short period of hundred years in the 19th century, fueled by Adhyatma Ramayana ; Sundarananda Bara ( 1833 ); Birsikka, an anonymous collection of folk tales ; and a version of the South Asian epic Ramayana by Bhanubhakta.

Kaz Dağı National Park, extending around the ancient Mount Ida ( mentioned in Homer's epic poems such as the Iliad ), is situated within the boundaries of Edremit district and is an important tourist attraction with its natural scenery and a number of picturesque small villages around it.

Irus's appearance within the epic develops the Homeric themes of savagery, punishing the inhospitable, and appearances vs. reality.

In 1960 he starred in Butterfield 8 and John Wayne's epic The Alamo, released within a month of each other.

They had an epic battle deep within the labyrinth of dungeons, where British, the " Champion of the White Light ", came victorious, driving Mondain away from the kingdom, thus receiving the title of " Lord British, Protector of Akalabeth ".

The humour of the poem comes from the storm in a teacup of pride being couched within the elaborate, formal verbal structure of an epic poem.

His Roman de Rou placed the Dukes of Normandy within an epic context.

Cloud opens his work on the fox by situating it within the larger tradition of epic poetry, the fabliaux and Arthurian romance:

The southern part of the African continent was dominated in the 19th century by a set of epic struggles to create within it a single unified state.

The most well-known theophany is contained within the Bhagavad-Gita, itself representing one chapter of the larger epic, the Mahabharata.

In his epic Argonautica, he locates the island somewhere south of Aethalia ( Elba ), within view of the Tyrrhenian shore ( western coast of Italy ).

" That “ drama ” included the epic retreat of the Communists from Jiangxi Province to Yan ’ an, which became known to history as the Long March, and the ever-growing power within the Chinese Communist Party of Mao Zedong.

For stylistic purists, the mixing of styles within a work was considered inappropriate, and a consistent use of the high style was mandated for the epic.

Video game creators have realized the asset of incorporating supercouple romances within their products by stringing together epic stories of love and intrigue.

While writing epic romances into video games is not a new phenomenon, the idea of capturing a video game player through emotionally charged moments via the death of a hero's lover in order to produce feelings of attachment to the fictional environment has expanded, especially within action-adventure / role-playing games ( RPGs ).

His graphic novels have ranged from nautical and medieval historical fiction to science fiction, and characteristically, within settings of violence and sexuality, epic stories revolve around strong female characters.

" He added that evolution provided Pratt " the solid framework within which he could achieve an epic style ," and also " gave him the themes for his best lyrics " ( such as his much-anthologized " From Stone to Steel ," from 1932's Many Moods.

According to a selectively abridged set of stanzas within a Joyoboyo prophesy ( all are extremely long epic poems ):

According to a selectively abridged set of stanzas within a Jayabaya prophesy ( all are extremely long epic poems ):

However, while many characters within the epic derive their appellations from Homeric characters, this is the only absolute correlation ; the themes are Homeric in inspiration, but the story does not imitatively follow the plot of either the Iliad or the Odyssey.