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Do you think there are people in the 21st century who would read long, narrative poetry? Epics, I mean. And I mean new epics, not the great classics of the Canon. If there were poets composing new epics, would people read them?

>> No.12987422
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12987422

The art lost can be regained.
But no one is interested.
Not with this mindset, zeitgeist

>> No.12987424

>>12987408
Why not write it with a meter but format it like a novel?

>> No.12987448

>>12987408
People in the 21st century don't want to read. There are people who would read it with a niche publisher, but it wouldn't reach any popularity. People have tried it anyways though.

>> No.12987499

>>12987422
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>> No.12987593

>>12987424
So like Moby-Dick, in other words.

>> No.12987601

We're having enough of a struggle to get people in the 21st century just to read
Baby steps

>> No.12987640
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A famous finnish folklorist Juha Pentikäinen, who is now retired. Is attempting to form a new epic, according to him some old finnish poems can be organized so that they become a story. The epic is about the finnish bear myth. If he manages to make do it, we will see. I think few people read it, most don't people will not.

>> No.12988173

>>12987640
I'm on to you, bearposter...