Buy at Amazon Yes, “The Waste Land” is Eliot’s best-known poem, and rightly so. It is epic, it references a myriad of works from the past while commenting on its present, it’s competent throughout and ...

Humanity’s unshakable attraction to warfare and its ramifications are unmistakable themes that run throughout this powerful ...

A 16th-Century epic poem based on the life of popular Hindu god Ram is at the centre of a huge political row in India. Ramcharitmanas is counted by many scholars to be among the world's greatest ...

Just as the story of an epic poem is woven from characters and plot, so too the individual similes within an epic create a unique simile world. Like any other story, it is peopled by individual ...

Classical Philology, Vol. 119, Issue. 1, p. 70. Greco-Roman martial epic poetry, from Homer and Virgil to Neronian and Flavian epic, is obsessed with the treatment of dead bodies. Sometimes corpses ...

The Embassy of India in China organized a symposium on "Ramayana - A Timeless Guide" in Beijing on November 2, inviting scholars, officials, and artists to reflect on Ramayana, its influence and ...