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The long poem is a literary genre including all poetry of considerable length. Though the definition of a long poem is vague and broad, the genre includes some of the most important poetry ever written.
With more than 220,000 (100,000 shloka or couplets) verses and about 1.8 million words in total, the Mahābhārata is one of the longest epic poems in the world.[1] It is roughly ten times the size of the Iliad and Odyssey combined, roughly five times longer than Dante's Divine Comedy, and about four times the size of the Ramayana and Ferdowsi's Shahnameh.
In English, Beowulf and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde are among the first important long poems. The long poem thrived and gained new vitality in the hands of experimental Modernists in the early 1900s and has continued to evolve through the 21st century.
The long poem has evolved into an umbrella term, encompassing many subgenres, including epic, verse novel, verse narrative, lyric sequence, lyric series, and collage/montage.
^Spodek, Howard; Richard Mason (2006). The World's History (3rd ed.). Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson Education. p. 224. ISBN 0-13-177318-6. OCLC 60745253. (Two volumes—volume 1: Prehistory to 1500?)
The longpoem is a literary genre including all poetry of considerable length. Though the definition of a longpoem is vague and broad, the genre includes...
This is a list of English poems over 1000 lines. This list includes poems that are generally identified as part of the longpoem genre, being considerable...
of approximately 113 poems includes a large number of shorter epigrams, lampoons, and occasional pieces, as well as nine longpoems mostly concerned with...
edition, 1948) is a longpoem in six parts by W. H. Auden, written mostly in a modern version of Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse. The poem deals, in eclogue...
poetry took the form of short, compact lyrics. Ultimately, however, longerpoems gained in favor, representing the modernist movement of the 20th-century...
decided to turn away from the longpoem he was working on (The Recluse) and devote more attention to publishing Poems in Two Volumes, in which "I Wandered...
from one poem to another. The average canto in the Divine Comedy is 142 lines long, while the average canto in Os Lusíadas is 882 lines long. Some famous...
The Excursion: Being a portion of The Recluse, a poem is itself a longpoem by Romantic poet William Wordsworth and was first published in 1814 (see 1814...
day. Her essays on Pushkin and Poem Without a Hero, her longest work, were only published after her death. This longpoem, composed between 1940 and 1965...
contemporaries like Mohan Singh and Shiv Kumar Batalvi. Pritam's magnum opus, the longpoem Sunehade, won her the 1956 Sahitya Akademi Award, making her the first...
its children, as in Percy Bysshe Shelley's longpoem Peter Bell the Third (1839), Herman Melville's poem The March into Virginia (1866) about the American...
poems contains the longpoem of 10 cantos by Stevens of the same name. The book features a collection of poems containing also the 1948 Stevens long poem...
Saturday. John Dryden commemorated the death of Charles II of England in the longpoem Threnodia Augustalis, and Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote a "Threnody" in memory...
his tragedy Medea, which was admired in antiquity but is no longer extant. Ovid's next poem, the Medicamina Faciei (a fragmentary work on women's beauty...
syntax. His early longpoems Pauline (1833) and Paracelsus (1835) were acclaimed, but his reputation dwindled for a time – his 1840 poem Sordello was seen...
Wikisource has original text related to this article: End Poem (full text) The End Poem is a poem by Julian Gough that appears in the end credits of the...
Samuel Loveman declared that Long'spoem "The Marriage of Sir John de Mandeville" was worthy of Christopher Marlowe. Long's closest friends (apart from...
and Italy, he wrote his last work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), a longpoem commemorating the harsh rhythms of prison life. Oscar Wilde was born at...
1970–1990), and his editorial credits include the journal Brick, and the LongPoem Anthology (1979), among others. Ondaatje was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka...
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