Epic poetry
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Broader term:Narrower terms:- Epic poetry -- Adaptations
- Epic poetry -- History and criticism
- Chansons de geste
- Epic poetry, Arabic
- Epic poetry, Assyro-Babylonian
- Epic poetry, Classical
- Epic poetry, English
- Epic poetry, English (Old)
- Epic poetry, Estonian
- Epic poetry, Finnish
- Epic poetry, French
- Epic poetry, Greek
- Epic poetry, Italian
- Epic poetry, Latin
- Epic poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern)
- Epic poetry, Sanskrit
- Epic poetry, Serbian
- Epic poetry, Tamil
- Heroic poetry
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Epic and Saga: Beowulf; The Song of Roland; The Destruction of Dá Derga's Hostel; The story of the Volsungs and Niblungs (Harvard Classics v49; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, 1910), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson, trans. by Francis Barton Gummere, John O'Hagan, Whitley Stokes, Eiríkr Magnússon, and William Morris- National Epics, by Kate Milner Rabb (Gutenberg text)
- The Book of the Epic: The World's Great Epics Told in Story (1913), by H. A. Guerber, contrib. by J. Berg Esenwein (Gutenberg text)
- Troy Book: Selections, by John Lydgate, ed. by Robert Edwards (HTML at Rochester)
- The Aeneid for Boys and Girls, Told From Virgil in Simple Language (New York: Macmillan, 1942), by Alfred John Church, contrib. by Virgil (HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
- The Epic: An Essay, by Lascelles Abercrombie (Gutenberg text)
- Corneille, Tasso, and Modern Poetics (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1986), by A. Donald Sellstrom (PDF from Ohio State University Press)
- Epic and Romance: Essays on Medieval Literature (London: Macmillan, 1931), by W. P. Ker (Gutenberg text)
- Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry, by John Dryden (Gutenberg text)
- Four Essays (Harvard Studies in Romance Languages v3; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1917), by Murray Anthony Potter (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Transforming Desire: Erotic Knowledge in Books III and IV of The Faerie Queene (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), by Lauren Silberman (HTML at UC Press)
- Prosody and Purpose in the English Renaissance (originally published 1989; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by O. B. Hardison (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
- Epic to Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1974), by Thomas E. Maresca (PDF at Ohio State)
- Theory and Practice of English Narrative Verse Since 1833 (Amsterdam: De Arbeiderspers, 1932), by Willem van Doorn (page images at delpher.nl)
- Kalevipoeg Studies: The Creation and Reception of an Epic (Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society, c2016), by Cornelius Hasselblatt (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
- Structural Arithmetic Metaphor in the Oxford "Roland" (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1972), by Eleanor Webster Bulatkin (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
- Poetry in Speech: Orality and Homeric Discourse (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1997), by Egbert J. Bakker (multiple formats with commentary at Cornell Open)
- Homer: The Poetry of the Past (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1992), by Andrew Laughlin Ford (multiple formats with commentary at Cornell Open)
- Taking Her Seriously: Penelope and the Plot of Homer's Odyssey (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2005), by Richard Heitman (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Limits of Heroism: Homer and the Ethics of Reading (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2004), by Mark Buchan (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Best of the Argonauts: The Redefinition of the Epic Hero in Book One of Apollonius' Argonautica (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by James Joseph Clauss (HTML at UC Press)
- The Power of Thetis: Allusion and Interpretation in the Iliad (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Laura M. Slatkin (HTML at UC Press)
- The Myth of Return in Early Greek Epic, by Douglas Frame (HTML at Harvard)
- The Disastrous Love Affair of Moon and Mars: Celestial Sex, Earthly Destruction, and Dramatic Sublimation in Homer's Odyssey, by Alfred De Grazia (PDF files at grazian-archive.com)
- Homer and History (London: Macmillan, 1915), by Walter Leaf (page images at HathiTrust)
- Homerische Untersuchungen (in German; Berlin: Weidmann, 1884), by Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff
- Sprachliche Untersuchungen zu Homer (in German; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1916), by Jacob Wackernagel (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Unity of Homer (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1921), by John A. Scott (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Homer and His Age, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text)
- Homeric Variations on a Lament by Briseis, by Casey Dué (HTML at Harvard)
- Penelope in the Odyssey (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1916), by J. W. Mackail (page images at HathiTrust)
- Euphorion: Being Studies of the Antique and the Medieval in the Renaissance (2 volumes), by Vernon Lee
- Recherches sur les Rapports des Chansons des Geste et de L'Épopée Chevaleresque Italienne, Avec Textes Inédits (in French; Paris: Maisonneuve Frères et Ch. Leclerc, 1887), by Ferdinand Castets
- Ami and Amile: A Medieval Tale of Friendship (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, c1996), trans. by Samuel N. Rosenberg and Samuel Danon, contrib. by David Konstan (page images at HathiTrust)
- Aliscans: Chanson de Geste, Pub. d'Après le Manuscrit de la Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal et à l'Aide de Cinq Autres Manuscrits (in French; Paris: A. Franck, 1870), ed. by F. Guessard and Anatole de Montaiglon (page images at HathiTrust)
- Légendes Populaires et Chansons de Geste en Savoie (in French; Paris: Bureaux de la Revue des Idées, 1910), by Arnold van Gennep (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Renaud of Montauban (London: G. Allen, 1897), ed. by Robert Steele, contrib. by William Caxton
- The Epic of Gilgamish (1928), ed. by R. Campbell Thompson (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Ishtar and Izdubar: The Epic of Babylon (1884 translation of the Epic of Gilgamesh), ed. by Leonidas Le Cenci Hamilton (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic, on the Basis of Recently Discovered Texts (Pennsylvania and Yale tablets, with translation and commentary; New Haven: Yale University Press, c1920), ed. by Morris Jastrow and Albert T. Clay (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Literature, the Humanities, and Humanity (Geneseo, NY: Open SUNY Textbooks, 2013), by Theodore L. Steinberg (multiple formats with commentary at milneopentextbooks.org)
- Beowulf, trans. by Francis Barton Gummere
- Beowulf (in modern and old English, with additional materials and commentary), ed. by Benjamin Slade (frame-dependent HTML at heorot.dk)
- Beowulf: Autotypes of the Unique Cottom Ms. Vitellius A XV in the British Museum, With a Transliteration and Notes (EETS original series #77; London: Printed for the Early English Text Society by N. Trubner, 1882), ed. by Julius Zupitza (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Beowulf, Translated Out of the Old English (revised edition; New York: Newson and Co., 1910), trans. by Chauncey Brewster Tinker
- Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Poem; The Fight at Finnsburh: A Fragment, ed. by James Albert Harrison, Robert Sharp, and Karl Hagen (Gutenberg texts)
- Ami and Amile: A Medieval Tale of Friendship (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, c1996), trans. by Samuel N. Rosenberg and Samuel Danon, contrib. by David Konstan (page images at HathiTrust)
- Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica (Loeb Classical Library edition; London: W. Heinemann; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1914), by Hesiod and Homer, trans. by Hugh G. Evelyn-White
- Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica (Loeb Classical Library edition; London: W. Heinemann; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1920), by Hesiod and Homer, trans. by Hugh G. Evelyn-White
- Recherches sur les Rapports des Chansons des Geste et de L'Épopée Chevaleresque Italienne, Avec Textes Inédits (in French; Paris: Maisonneuve Frères et Ch. Leclerc, 1887), by Ferdinand Castets
- Pharsalia (The Civil War), by Lucan
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