A Link, with Rumination

The Return of the Muse has a piece on why we need new epic poetry here. I can't say that I agree, unless a very loose definition of epic is meant by. Our societies are too disunified, to fragmented to accept the text as embodying core cultural values, and embodying a clear and definable crisis in its history. Besides which, we lack that sense of history, purpose and technique in the long poem that would make this possible.