Found 536 results for "Epic poetry, English (Old)"
The Wealth of Nations
by Adam Smith
The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment ...
Ἰλιάς
by Όμηρος
AN ANGRY MAN-THERE IS MY STORY: THE BITTER RANcour of Achilles, prince of the house of Peleus, which brought a thousand ...
Metamorphoses
by Ovid
The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...
Inferno
by Dante Alighieri
Midway in his allotted threescore years and ten, Dante comes to himself with a start and realizes that he has strayed fr...
Paradise Lost
by John Milton
This first book proposes, first in brief, the whole subject: man's disobedience and the loss thereupon of Paradise where...
Os Lusíadas
by Luís de Camões, Souza Botelho
As armas, & os barões aſsinalados, / Que da Occidental praya Luſitana, / Por mares nunca de antes nauegados, / Paſſaram,...
The song of Hiawatha
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Jeff Ulmer
Ye who love the haunts of Nature,
L' Orlando furioso
by Lodovico Ariosto
I SING of knights and ladies, of love and arms, of courtly chivalry, of courageous deeds-all from the time when the Moor...
Grendel
by John Gardner
The old ram stands looking down over rockslides, stupidly triumphant.
Tristan und Isolde
by Gottfried von Strassburg, Arthur Thomas Hatto
THERE was a lord in Parmenie of tender years, as I read.
Don Juan
by Lord Byron
In a note or preface (I forget which) by Mr W. Wordsworth to a poem, the subject of which, as far as it is intelligible,...
