Sentences with phrase «long narrative poems»

First published in the early decades of the nineteenth century, it is a long narrative poem about a young woman of great beauty and culture, her misfortunes, and the burdens of karma; a work of genuinely moving brilliance, grim and sad at many points, but also somehow radiant.

A long narrative poem appears here describing in some detail the ascetic practices of the Master Mahavira himself.

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What of the relationship between the long poem and the preceding prose narrative» If one is in some significant sense dependent upon the other, priority lies with the poem.

In 1952, Buffet illustrated Comte de Lautréamont's Les Chants de Maldoror, a long narrative prose poem now considered one of the foremost examples of Surrealist writing.

The film defies the convention of a linear narrative; the long haired protagonist rehearses an extract from Gilbert Sorrentino's poem The Morning Roundup, whilst also attempting to recall particular memories and sensations.