Post by kenysmeyn on Jan 6, 2011 2:55:00 GMT -5
It's four months until NEPMo starts and I've already been hyped up and planning since early November.
However, it just recently occurred to me that I don't actually *read* epic poetry... which might actually make it difficult to write. So I've resolved to read at least one epic poem a month for the next four months.
One will *probably* be the Divine Comedy, the Odyssey or Beowulf. I've read them all before (and I can vaguely recall Beowulf making my brain bleed) but it was rather a long time ago. I'd like any others I read to have been originally written in English as they really loose something in translation (like rhyme and meter).
Others that I'm considering include:
Spencer, Faerie Queene
MacPherson, The Works of Ossian
Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer / Curse of Kehama
Scott, The Lady of the Lake / The Lord of the Isles
Shelley, Queen Mab / The Spirit of Solitude
Keats, Endymion
Byron, Don Juan
Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha
Tennyson, Idylls of the King
Bridges, Eros & Psyche
Yeats, The Wanderings of Oisin
Neihardt, Cycle of the West
Martinson, Aniara
Can anyone recommend any of the above poems? Are any of them completely horrible and to be avoided at all costs?
Finally, is anyone willing to do this with me? I need moral support!
However, it just recently occurred to me that I don't actually *read* epic poetry... which might actually make it difficult to write. So I've resolved to read at least one epic poem a month for the next four months.
One will *probably* be the Divine Comedy, the Odyssey or Beowulf. I've read them all before (and I can vaguely recall Beowulf making my brain bleed) but it was rather a long time ago. I'd like any others I read to have been originally written in English as they really loose something in translation (like rhyme and meter).
Others that I'm considering include:
Spencer, Faerie Queene
MacPherson, The Works of Ossian
Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer / Curse of Kehama
Scott, The Lady of the Lake / The Lord of the Isles
Shelley, Queen Mab / The Spirit of Solitude
Keats, Endymion
Byron, Don Juan
Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha
Tennyson, Idylls of the King
Bridges, Eros & Psyche
Yeats, The Wanderings of Oisin
Neihardt, Cycle of the West
Martinson, Aniara
Can anyone recommend any of the above poems? Are any of them completely horrible and to be avoided at all costs?
Finally, is anyone willing to do this with me? I need moral support!
