Epic Poetry

Verse built for scale — gods, wars, and journeys sustained across thousands of lines. Epic poetry from Homer's tradition through its contemporary descendants.

On the Verse & Stage shelf.

Books shelved as Epic Poetry

• Memorial: A Version of Homer's Iliad — Alice Oswald
• Memorial: An Excavation of the Iliad — Alice Oswald
• The Divine Comedy — Allen Mandelbaum
• The Divine Comedy — Eugenio Montale
• The Iliad / The Odyssey — Homer
• Purgatorio — Allen Mandelbaum / Laury Magnus / Anthony Oldcorn / Daniel Feldman / Barry Moser / Dante Alighieri
• The Crying of Lot 49 — Thomas Pynchon
• The Faerie Queen ... — Edmund Spenser
• The Divine Comedy — Dante Alighieri
• The Fall of Arthur — J.R.R. Tolkien
• Paradise Lost — John Milton
• The Odyssey — Homer
• The Epic of Gilgamesh — Anonymous
• The Iliad — Homer
• Paradiso — Robert Hollander / Jean Hollander / Dante Alighieri

Related genres

• Drama
• Poetry
• Tragedy

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