Epic poetry
Articles
- ‘The Life, the Loves, of that Dark Race’: The Ethnographic Verse of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Australia
Defining ‘ethnographic verse’ as ‘a loose, heterogeneous sub-genre that mixed poetry with anthropology, or ethnology as Victorians called it’ O’Leary considers examples within the context…
1 May 2007 - ‘Big Poems Burn Women’: Fredy Neptune’s Democratic Sailor and Walcott’s Epic Omeros
Analyses Fredy Neptune within the context of the epic tradition and explores similarities and differences between Murray’s work and the narratives of Derek Walcott, Seamus…
1 October 2001