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C.M. Bowra, Heroic Poetry, 1952

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Some
honour.
action. In
revealed.
claim
is
the
pursuit
of
honour
through
outlook,
most of his
supernatural
powers
their
first
claim.
knowledge
beaver
duly
His final
certainly magical.
establishment
between
heroic
poetry
lacking.
The
reasons
can
missed this
Babanankos,
a
people
pool
personal
hand
they
are
more
historical
than
ideal.
Indeed,
apart
from
Samson,
they
are
hardly
heroes
in
any
full
sense.
Saul
weapons,
clothes,
and
personal
appearance.
Moreover
these
prose-tales
often
contain
pieces
of
verse,
usually
in
reason
prose
were
preferred
poetry
which
keeps
the
form
of
objective
narrative
but
uses
of
his
fellows.
Some
indication
Igor (New York,
1948), p. 146,
they
were
there.
Great
is
airs
of
a
panegyric
when
it
comes
fetlocks,
And
kinds
of
poem
the
same
story
cf.
Garratt,
a
lays
cycle,
singing
poet
wishes
not
to
the
good
(184 tf.),
the
the
con-
a
similar
dramatic
technique
with
a
greater
boldness.
the
First
used.
This
is
obviously
true
of
the
dactylic
hexameter
of
the
Homeric
poems,
a
song
use
a
regular
tune
like
poetry
heroic
poetry,
source of
For we
know how to utter the truth when that is our will.
1
they
themselves
do.
The
heroic
Achilles or
comes,
sooner
or
later,
a
time
when
go slowly
B.C.
clown at this
of
the
past.
It
reflects
a
widespread
desire
to
celebrate
man's
powers
of
his
Yakuts,
the
prodigious
calls for
her
husband
so
doing
women.
3
In
such
contests
disturbing
elements
of
pride
and
vanity
may
be
involved.
surpass
tide
Caught
it
pulled
it
down.
Once
the
open
sea.
It
slipped
from
my
hand,
But
nothing
daunted
I
dived
again
like
a
sea-bird
And
with
one
the other women of the
household,
Alpamys.
The
shepherd,
Kultai,
is
called
events,
issue
depends
on
strength
and
skill.
The
poetry
interest
smiting,
And
I
met
them
once
contempt
it
on
this,
in blood. Since
wife,
and
consult
his
armour
and
sends
him
out.
The
day,
It
against you.
superiority
Atlamdl when
Kitzio
Andoni
is
brought
bound
to
him
plane-tree
And
without
alive.
In
Atlamdl
the
clear
that
action which
Atli.
that
it
doing
so
tries
to
explain
But
surely
we
greatest
efforts
and
perform
bath-water
shows his
courage
will defeat
has been
Like
birds
they
wear
a
garment
of
feathers,
They
sit
in
to a
after
death.
Only
if
they
fifteenth
century
B.C.
when
it
appears
heroic
life
is
held.
If
the
ghosts
of
heroes
illustrate
come
near
and
drink
of
the
blood,
thee
The
power
of
the
gods
be
uneasy
in
their
Christianity
and
the Vila
to be
does
not
his
temporary
disablement,
its
importance
grandeur
but
in
doing
contra-
diction
between
comfortably
demands
brief
career
he
must
do
his
badly
brought
up
their hands.
to women
supernatural
gifts.
years
old,
soldier.
in
spate,
a
flaming
star,
a
vulture
swooping
skies,
Your
brows
1
compare
part
were
speechless.
1
Against
this
modest,
untutored
effect
we
may
set
the
magnificent
devoid
of
exert
his
own
an
opponent
against
whom
any
stratagem
is
fair,
but
need
is
to
display
his
prowess
and
second the sand of the river. Then he beats Batradz
on
the
anvil
for
a
month,
and
at
the
me
blue
sea.
The
in the
put
in
confident
that
to
die
for
their
cause
Mohammedan
faith
of
the
Kara-
Kirghiz
only
when
boundary
great prince
justify
is the
nurture,
And
witness,
Lenin's brother
from
folk-lore,
the
the
ring,
I
would
drag
the
sky
down
The
whole
people
gathered
and
thronged,
They
all
thronged
and
gathered,
Up
enemies,
Crush
our
enemies,
hurl
the
escape
from
a
sense
avenge
her
my
brother's
murder,
of choice
any
case
a
painful
theme,
but
it
assumes
a
special
grandeur
in
Hildebrand.
Unfortunately
the
poem
is
incomplete,
in
his
last
fight
The
poet,
of
course,
approves
Lazar's
decision
and
gives
a
benediction
to
it
:
 
grasps
the
realities
of
the
situation
field,
he
great
hero
has
brightness
the
ordinary
happiness
of
men,
and
pushes
on
in
his
quest.
He
heroic
story
vary
Mongols,
Tsar
Lazar,
the
rest
of
the
poems
conquer
Serbia.
Nor
is
there
any
suggestion
that
battle,
Casting
at
me
with
a
spear
such scenes
in
the
poetry
of
the
Kalmucks,
who
lived
till
very
recently
the
hero,
who
lives
in
it,
is
to
be
understood
by
the
audience.
Part
and
makes
something
eddies
Leaping
this
way
and
awful,
enjoyed,
and
comes
quite
easily
play
such
a
part.
A
hero
a
man
of
blood,
dwelling,
and
In
its
windows
of
pewter
Are
twelve
unsleeping
guards,
Each
one
in
rank
a
warrior.
Each
of
the
guards
holds
3
men
silk,
a
envy
it.
1
This
success for
the
palace
is
the
great
orchard,
surrounded
by
a
wall,
where
fruit-trees,
weight,
And
blades,
of
thirty
manas
each,
to
to
pieces.
He
asks
scornfully
gets
the
sword
because
these.
Roland's
Durendal
is
also
reputed
a
cover
an
is
is
he fits it
bark
bright
adornments,
Wondrous
war-armour
without charts
be
suitably
interested.
More
important
It is in the
most
the
wind,
splendid dwelling
appears
to
those
forehead
what looks
lips
overtaken.
2
There
is
exaggeration
in
this,
but
not
so
repay
this
kindness.
to
He
prayed
persuasiveness
and
solidity
the
audience.
This
too
poem
without
too
great
a
jump
from
ordinary
small
step
to
making
it
interpret
be
expected.
So
In
shamanistic
poetry
this
is
common
enough.
The
confidence
is
restored,
and
he
go
befallen
you
occasion
let him.
 
loyalty
of
a
had
happened
2
and
hideous,
but
beyond
that
they
have
little
to
guide
them,
and
their
presentation
of
them
is
determined
by
these
conditions.
They
must
somehow
convince
their
encountered them.
not ask
of
smoke.
2
husk
of
millet,
His
eyes
are
like
deep
darkness,
His
footstep
is
and
unusual
creature,
for
six
days,
and
even
the
great
His full beard
big
as
a
mountain,
and
and
provokes
certain
feelings
about
errand
of
explains
friendship.
The
guard,
without
committing
himself
to
accepting
of
the
doughty.
1
In a
valleys
had
less
his
he is but
turn
him
gifts.
Just
Kirghiz
style
company's
finished,
his
own
land
For
homicide,
gives
a
gold-mounted
ship,
goes
aboard,
Homer's
art.
When
Telemachus
has
to
face
the sun.
elaborate
coiffure
Saracens
with
that
may
appear
defiance
to
unfitting
that
he
signifi-
moment,
Threw
it
l
Penka
duly
to
Gunnar
occasion :
the
pleasures
of
eating
and
drinking
than
in
the
gifts
3
This
is
certainly
similar manner
indispensable
to
the
story,
but
necessary
to
move
a
it and tied it
what
is
done
aboard
in
the
performance
of
off
the
poems
on
Helgi
Hundingsbane.
purpose.
As
the
rider
goes
on
his
China
and
worthy
of
Odysseus
and
tive.
Though
in
matters
of
brothers
thoughts
requires
this
in
his
own
way.
(Indeed,
improvisation
songs.
4
Jugoslavs
have
indistinguishable
from
The
formulae
important
to
oral
improvised
poetry
because
they
poet
to
compose.
When
poetry
The
Yakut
stories
are
set
in
be
place
Parry's
many
small
formulae,
while
penetrate.
It
is
present
equally
in
the
machinery
of
respect.
We
cannot
say
that
his
language
is
head off.*
these
are
complete
lines
like
The
gift
of
Germanic
poetry,
which
naturally
half-lines
past
noun-adjective
combinations
and
of
repeated
lines,
though
completed
differently.
1
Roland
poses
a
special
question
from
first
place
the
repeated
orders
which
They may
her
shoulders,
chest
filled
with
gold
They
double
repetition.
He
says
to it.
oil
from
a
cruse,
wine
in
Ramadan,
women.
Only
Marko
's
behaviour
are
kept
clear
and
emphatic,
and
there
is
a
certain
his
power
and
estates
every
suit-
narrow
range
of
emotional
response.^)
The
excitements
Or
it
may
be
that
their
temper
is
so
austerely
heroic
that
and
Maldon^