I'd love to help proofread, edit, or co-author any literature or poetry factual write-ups you may be working on. Just message me a link to your scratch pad and we'll jam.

Right now, I'm researching for a cluster of nodes I want to write about epic poetry. The project will culminate with a meganode to link all of the parts I have written together with what other people have written on the subject so far.

Outline:

• Definition of epic poetry.
  • Distinction between narrative poetry, epyllion, and epic.
  • Distinction between primary and secondary epic.
• Some conventions of epic poetry
  • Broad in scope
  • Unifying themes
  • Begins with an invocation
  • Begins in media res
  • Description through elaborate similes
  • Characters given epithets
  • Catalogues and enumeration
  • Circumscription of the cosmos (this is what I am most interested in at the moment)
• Exemplary epic poems
  • Subject of each, themes, and significance in literary tradition.
• References
• Related articles