- Kirstyn Leuner (King Arthur meets Lady Guinevere)

- Poetess archive

- Epic art in modern life, book V of Aurora Leigh:
1) Define epic art and modern life
2) Can there be heroes in modern life? - according to the poem? to you?
3) Who are the modern day equivalents of the poets that A.L. is writing about? (in YOUR opinion)

1) Lines 221-2: an epic "... is living art,/ Which thus presents and thus records true life." In A.L.'s opinion, epic art and modern life are, by necessity, closely related. Modern life is contemporary existence, having to do with everyone alive; epic art records a living, true presentation of it.

2) According to A.L., heroes can exist: "Nay, if there's room for poets in this world/ A little overgrown (I think there is),..." (Lines 200-1). She describes poets as being heroic, for dedicating their life's work to the history and existence of the people around them.

I think most heroes are unsung, anonymous people. They are also not called heroes so much as "role-models".

3) The modern day equivalents of the poets A.L. is talking about are everyday people. Lines 151-2: "All actual heroes are essential men,/ And all men possible heroes..." She's very frank, even blunt, when she wants to be - an excellent mouthpiece, on occasion, for the author herself.