object:Epic Poetry (by alpha)
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subject class:Poetry
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Best of Epic Poetry -- https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/443.Best_of_Epic_Poetry?page=1
Abolqasem Ferdowsi - Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings (4.52 avg rating 3,992 ratings)
Adam Mickiewicz - Pan Tadeusz (3.35 avg rating 6,803 ratings)
Alexander Pope - The Rape of the Lock (3.56 avg rating 13,072 ratings)
Alfred Tennyson - Idylls of the King (3.95 avg rating 9,131 ratings)
Alice Oswald - Memorial: A Version of Homer's Iliad (4.24 avg rating 916 ratings)
Ali Liebegott - The Beautifully Worthless (4.06 avg rating 266 ratings)
Anne Waldman - The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment (4.33 avg rating 18 ratings)
Anonymous - Popol Vuh (3.76 avg rating 4,317 ratings)
Anonymous (Redactor) - The Book of Dede Korkut (3.90 avg rating 493 ratings)
Anonymous - The Epic of Gilgamesh (3.69 avg rating 76,979 ratings)
Anonymous - The Poem of the Cid (3.47 avg rating 8,730 ratings)
Apollonius of Rhodes - Jason and the Golden Fleece (3.82 avg rating 8,156 ratings)
Arshia Sattar (Translator) - The Ramayana (4.14 avg rating 8,795 ratings)
Camille Barr (Goodreads Author) - Behind The Facade (4.79 avg rating 14 ratings)
C. Rajagopalachari (Translator) - Mahabharata (4.29 avg rating 7,792 ratings)
Dante Alighieri - Inferno (really liked it 4.00 avg rating 134,655 ratings)
Dante Alighieri - The Divine Comedy (4.07 avg rating 109,200 ratings)
Derek Walcott - Omeros (really liked it 4.00 avg rating 2,192 ratings)
Douglas J. Penick (Goodreads Author) - Crossings on a Bridge of Light: The Songs and Deeds of Gesar, King of Ling as He Travels to Shambhala Through the Realms of Life and Death (4.31 avg rating 16 ratings)
Douglas J. Penick (Goodreads Author) - The Warrior Song Of King Gesar (really liked it 4.00 avg rating 39 ratings)
Edmund Spenser - The Faerie Queene (3.56 avg rating 15,278 ratings)
Elias Lnnrot - The Kalevala (4.06 avg rating 4,322 ratings)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Aurora Leigh (3.72 avg rating 2,050 ratings)
Ezra Pound - The Cantos (3.93 avg rating 5,077 ratings)
Fakhraddin Gorgani - Vis and Ramin (3.84 avg rating 183 ratings)
Francis G. Gentry (Editor) - German Epic Poetry: The Nibelungenlied, the Older Lay of Hildebrand, and Other Works (4.34 avg rating 86 ratings)
Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales (3.50 avg rating 182,983 ratings)
Geoffrey Chaucer - Troilus and Criseyde (3.78 avg rating 5,872 ratings)
Herman Gorter - Mei: Een Gedicht (3.32 avg rating 239 ratings)
Herman Melville - Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (3.58 avg rating 62 ratings)
Hesiod - Theogony / Works and Days (3.76 avg rating 10,924 ratings)
Homer - The Iliad (3.86 avg rating 339,036 ratings)
Homer - The Iliad of Homer (3.86 avg rating 339,036 ratings)
Homer - The Odyssey (3.76 avg rating 832,243 ratings)
Irum Zahra (Goodreads Author) - Psychaotic: See The World In Red And Black (4.13 avg rating 116 ratings)
Jasmine Farrell (Goodreads Author) - Phoenixes Groomed as Genesis Doves (4.07 avg rating 14 ratings)
John Keats - Endymion: A Poetic Romance (3.96 avg rating 464 ratings)
John Milton - Paradise Lost (3.82 avg rating 126,579 ratings)
J.R.R. Tolkien - The Fall of Arthur (3.81 avg rating 6,026 ratings)
J.R.R. Tolkien - The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son (3.89 avg rating 81 ratings)
J.R.R. Tolkien - The Lays of Beleri and (The History of Middle-Earth, #3) (3.97 avg rating 3,226 ratings)
J.R.R. Tolkien - The Legend of Sigurd & Gudrn (3.84 avg rating 6,623 ratings)
Juliusz Sowacki - Kordian. Cz pierwsza trylogii. Spisek koronacyjny (2.83 avg rating 3,215 ratings)
Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa - The Bhagavad Gita (4.13 avg rating 52,237 ratings)
Lena Jayyusi (Editor) - The Adventures of Sayf Ben Dhi Yazan: An Arab Folk Epic (3.96 avg rating 26 ratings)
Leonard W. King - Enuma Elish: The Seven Tablets of the History of Creation (3.71 avg rating 629 ratings)
Linda Egenes (Goodreads Author) - The Ramayana: A New Retelling of Valmiki's Ancient Epic (4.41 avg rating 146 ratings)
Lord Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (3.70 avg rating 1,550 ratings)
Lord Byron - Don Juan (3.80 avg rating 7,352 ratings)
Lord Byron - Manfred (3.82 avg rating 1,761 ratings)
Lucan - Civil War (3.93 avg rating 1,184 ratings)
Ludovico Ariosto - Orlando Furioso (4.02 avg rating 2,905 ratings)
Ludovico Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - Roland Furieux: Version bilingue, franaise, puis italienne (4.02 avg rating 2,905 ratings)
Lus de Cames - The Lusiads (really liked it 4.00 avg rating 6,650 ratings)
Lynn Wolff (Goodreads Author) - Butterflies and Lies: Poems (4.90 avg rating 10 ratings)
Marly Youmans (Goodreads Author) - Thaliad (4.45 avg rating 31 ratings)
Maxine Hong Kingston - I Love a Broad Margin to My Life (3.72 avg rating 202 ratings)
M. Joseph Bdier - The Romance of Tristan and Iseult (3.66 avg rating 10,177 ratings)
Nguyen Du - The Tale of Kieu (4.22 avg rating 850 ratings)
Nicole Lyons (Goodreads Author) - Hush (4.50 avg rating 105 ratings)
Nikos Kazantzakis - The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel (4.31 avg rating 398 ratings)
Nizami Ganjavi - Haft Paykar: A Medieval Persian Romance (4.22 avg rating 311 ratings)
Omar Khayym - Rubaiyat (4.18 avg rating 17,322 ratings)
Ovid - Metamorphoses (4.06 avg rating 56,414 ratings)
Pablo Neruda - The Poetry of Pablo Neruda (4.44 avg rating 16,835 ratings)
Publius Papinius Statius - The Thebaid: Seven Against Thebes (3.99 avg rating 142 ratings)
Quintus Smyrnaeus - The Fall of Troy (4.07 avg rating 459 ratings)
Rainer Maria Rilke - Duino Elegies (4.43 avg rating 6,882 ratings)
Rainer Maria Rilke - Sonnets to Orpheus (4.32 avg rating 2,622 ratings)
Richard M. Knittle Jr. (Goodreads Author) - The Battle Lost: Ryder's Birth (4.50 avg rating 16 ratings)
Saadi - De Rozentuin (4.50 avg rating 2,689 ratings)
Sam Pink (Goodreads Author) - Your Glass Head against the Brick Parade of Now Whats (4.55 avg rating 118 ratings)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (3.94 avg rating 52,246 ratings)
Shota Rustaveli - The Knight in the Panther's Skin (4.62 avg rating 1,647 ratings)
Stephen Vincent Bent - John Brown's Body (4.24 avg rating 236 ratings)
Sri Aurobindo - Savitri (4.70 avg rating 194 ratings)
Tacitus - Germania (3.96 avg rating 1,150 ratings)
Tacitus - The Agricola and The Germania (3.99 avg rating 4,597 ratings)
Thomas Simon (Goodreads Author) - Slices (3.90 avg rating 21 ratings)
Torquato Tasso - Jerusalem Delivered (3.87 avg rating 991 ratings)
Unknown - Beowulf (3.44 avg rating 225,360 ratings)
Unknown - Beowulf (3.44 avg rating 225,361 ratings)
Unknown - Das Nibelungenlied: Song of the Nibelungs (3.87 avg rating 5,912 ratings)
Unknown - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (3.70 avg rating 50,832 ratings)
Unknown - The Poetic Edda (4.26 avg rating 7,138 ratings)
Unknown - The Song of Roland (3.54 avg rating 13,389 ratings)
Unknown - Van den vos Reynaerde (3.29 avg rating 2,133 ratings)
Victor Hugo - La Lgende des sicles (4.07 avg rating 138 ratings)
Virgil - Aeneid Book VI (4.37 avg rating 510 ratings)
Virgil - The Aeneid (3.84 avg rating 103,426 ratings)
Vlmki - Rama the Steadfast: An Early Form of the Ramayana (4.14 avg rating 8,795 ratings)
Walter Scott - The Lady of the Lake (3.85 avg rating 1,240 ratings)
Willem die Madocke maecte - Van den vos Reynaerde. Het Comburgse handschrift (3.29 avg rating 2,133 ratings)
William Carlos Williams - Paterson (4.14 avg rating 2,661 ratings)
William Morris - The Story of Sigurd the Volsung (4.06 avg rating 80 ratings)
Wolfram von Eschenbach - Parzival (3.80 avg rating 2,935 ratings)
Zygmunt Krasiski - Nie-Boska komedia (2.80 avg rating 2,242 ratings)
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