Word: epic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...able administrator who knew well how to direct the fruits of his conquest along lines of permanence by fostering settlement and agriculture. The figure of Dona Marina, the beautiful Indian interpretress who shared all the toils of his arduous campaigns, gives an added note of romance. Yet notwithstanding the epic quality of Mr. Robinson's recent biography, Prescott's "Conquest of Mexico" is still the most dramatic and astounding account of the exploits of Hernando Cortez...
...Serpent in the Cloud" is in my opinion a work which approaches the ideal of true poetry far more closely than those subjective excrescences to be found among the minor lyricists. This is a long narrative poem comparable in stature if not in epic quality with "John Brown's Body". The story is the simple theme of the love of two young people who are separated by obstacles which are overcome in their consummation. The obstacles this time are self imposed by the young man, Bruce Herrick, who fears that his blood is tainted with insanity. Rose, the girl...
...late great War is still a little too close to be recollected in tranquillity; as yet no epic, prose or verse, has attempted to put it between covers as Thomas Hardy put the Napoleonic Wars in The Dynasts. But this anthology of War stories is a step in that direction. These 66 short stories, by French, German, British, U. S. authors, whether or not they are the best stories of the War, at least give a more representative picture than can be found in any one novel, poenij history...
...beyond. Realizing that the paths of political glory lead only to the grave, Premier Benito Mussolini has undertaken the task of insuring his immortality in the less transitory world of letters. The world's most famous virtuoso in political showmanship will make his debut as a playwright with and epic to be produced at the Hungarian National Theater...
...Epic Argument. Vol. I, Song I opens in Heaven on Jan. 1, 1919-the day Italy declared her "state of war" ended. A Heavenly conclave of Italian War dead and heroes of the past is summoned by the Father, Son and Holy Ghost to advise how Satan, who provoked the War, may be finally overcome...