The Tale of the Tribe: The Theory of the Modern Epic

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Giacomo Bianchino On Zoom New York Tuesday 24 November, 2026 17:30-19:00 Sydney Wednesday 25 November, 2026 09:30-11:00 To receive a Zoom link, please sign up for the Critical Antiquities mailing list here . Register Here Some of the most important poets of the 20 th century– Pound, Zukofksy, HD, Walcott– wrote works that they self-consciously considered to be “epic.” For Pound, this kind of poem always aspired to be the “tale of the tribe;” and many critics have placed the efforts towards the modernist and post-modernist epos in the tradition of “national” poetry in the nineteenth century.

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