Walt Whitman is one of the greatest poets in American literature. In the cluster of poems he called Leaves of Grass; he gives America its first genuine epic poem. In Leaves of Grass, with the frequent use of colloquial language and everyday events, his verses ...
Ramayana, shorter of the two greatepic poemsofIndia, the other being theMahabharata(“Great Epic of the Bharata Dynasty”). TheRamayanawas composed inSanskrit, probably not before 300bce, by the poetValmiki, according to widely accepted Hindu tradition. Two major Indian festivals celebrate events...