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Unread 01-14-2013, 01:42 PM
Elizabeth Adams Elizabeth Adams is offline
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Originally Posted by marly youmans View Post
Thank you so much--warmth always welcome! I'm hoping it manages to paddle along, despite a long poem being such a rare thing these days.
Marly, do you think that "epic poem" is an outdated term? Or, at the very least, one that may feel daunting to modern readers? Thaliad is an epic poem, but that really means a novel in verse form. I wonder if there are other ways of describing such a book. My husband, for instance, would be unlikely to read an epic poem, but he loved Thaliad, and said he quickly forgot that to was in verse at all!
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