epic poets
Composers of sagas
Epic poets compose long narrative poems celebrating heroic deeds, mythological events, or the fate of nations.
Homer, Virgil, and Milton rank among the most celebrated.
The term often carries grandeur by association: He fancied himself one of the epic poets, though his verse rarely exceeded a dozen lines.
- heroic deedsCourageous acts of valor
- HomerAncient Greek epic composer
- VirgilClassical epic poet
- in medias resStarting amid events
- oral traditionCulture passed by speech
Dante Alighieri · John Milton · oral performance · invocation · recitation · literary archetypes · blank verse · Norse sagas · myth · hero · Iliad · wine-dark sea · blind · classical antiquity · oral · Dante · legend · wandering
- Sanskrit Authorscourt poets, literary critics
- poetsHomer, Dante, Milton, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost
- storytellersstorytellers, narrator, narrators, tale-teller, tale spinner
- Ancient GreeksSocrates, Plato, Aristotle, Homer, Pericles
- Elizabethan writersplaywrights, poets, sonneteers, dramatists, chroniclers
- Greek writersHomer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes
epic poetslyric poets
Authors of personal verse
lyricists · sonneteers · miniaturists · elegists · balladeers
epic poetsnovelists
Writers of long-form fiction
essayists · journalists · diarists · memoirists · technical writers