Elbert H. Smith
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Elbert H. Smith was the author of the best selling epic poem
Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak in 1839.
Epic poetry
An epic is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation. Oral poetry may qualify as an epic, and Albert Lord and Milman Parry have argued that classical epics were fundamentally an oral poetic form...
Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak in 1839.