The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream use a Christian understanding, but has an Apollonian basis to his poem, and Moneta forms the image of a sibyl and mimics Book 6 of the "Aeneid". The language and detail style is reminiscent of "Paradise Lost", which, in many letters, Keats has stated was a quality epic, but dealt with morality on a simplistic level. The form and meter of Keats's epic is similar to Milton's. The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream, sometimes subtitled as "A Vision" instead of a dream, is an epic poem written by the English Romantic John Keats. Keats
John Brown's Body (poem) John Brown's Body (poem) John Brown's Body (1928) is an epic American poem written by Stephen Vincent Benét. Its title references the radical abolitionist John Brown, who raided Harpers Ferry in Virginia in the fall of 1859. He was captured and hanged later that year. Benét's poem covers the history of the American Civil War. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1929. The poem was performed on Broadway in 1953 in a staged dramatic reading starring Tyrone Power, Judith Anderson, and Raymond Massey, and directed by Charles Laughton. In 2015 it was announced that the recording of the performance will