A quick test of your knowledge of epic poetry ranging from "Beowulf" to Dante.
Amateur Poetry Portal, multiple poets and poetic forms. Reader's Poems Published for free.
"This html e-text has been prepared by Richard Bear from the original edition of Lyrical Ballads, the Bristol imprint of 1798."
Links to epic poetry, criticism, resources
Translated by Eirikr Magnusson and William Morris.
Desktop publishing of narrative poetry, including the author's Onegin-like Nineteenth-Century Friend in tetrameter sonnets.
A UC Berkeley project bringing pre-modern history to life through the introduction of national heroic traditions, focussing on Sunjata, Ramayana, and Yamato.
A brief and basic definition, with an illustrative example, of the narrative poem.
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