In the prologue to his epic novel Zorba the Greek, Nikos Kazantzakis wrote, ‘throughout my life, my greatest benefactors have been my dreams and my travels; very few man, living or dead, have helped me in my struggle Kazantzakis traveled widely and wrote a number of classic novels. This great Greek scholar died of Leukemia in 1957 at the age of 74, and was buried at his birth place Herakles. The epitaph of his tomb reads: 'I hope for nothing, I fear nothing, I am free.

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an august work

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a humble work

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a significant work

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a noteworthy work

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Epic

Epic [মহাকাব্য)]:

(i) Epic means a long narrative poem that tells in grand style the history and aspirations of a national hero.

(ii) A long narrative poem dealing with heroic theme and adventure. (সুদীর্ঘ রোমাঞ্চকর কাহিনীকাব্য, মহাকাব্য)।

There are two types of epic:

(1) Primary or Oral epic:

A Primary epic is a type of epic with which the epic tradition began. In a primary epic the episodes taken from the oral tradition are linked with one another to make a longer story.

Examples: Homer's Iliad and Odyssey are primary epics.

(2) Secondary or Literary epic:

The Secondary or Literary epic is the one which imitated the tradition of the primary epic. A primary epic displays savage and rude heroism but a sec-ondary epic shows a more refined taste.

Examples: Virgil's Aeneid, Dante's Divine Comedy and Milton's Paradise Lost are secondary epics.

ইংরেজি সাহিত্যের বিখ্যাত মহাকাব্য ও রচয়িতা :

Writers	Epic (মহাকাব্য)
1.Alexander Pope	The Rape of the Lock (Mock-epic)
2.Edmund Spenser	The Faerie Queen
3.Homer	The Iliad, The Odyssey
4.John Milton	Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained
5.Virgil	Aeneid

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