Epic poetry, narrative poems, a list of websites
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List of epic poems, Wikipedia.
Hyperbos. Epic literature on the internet.
Pre- classical, women’s epic, non-western epic, American epic, Medieval epic, Renaissance epic, Romantic epic, Victorian Epic, modern epic.
The Aeneid
The Aeneid, translation by John Dryden.
The Aeneid, by Virgil. Internet resources.
The Divine Comedy
The Classic Text: Dante Alighieri
Online version of exhibition at the University of Western Michigan. Include reproductions of illustrations of Dante’s work from different printed editions throughout history.
The Divine Comedy,
by Dante Alighieri. Internet resources.
A Commentary on The Divine Comedy.
The Complete Divine Comedy of Dante.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s translation of Dante Alighieri’s classic.
Epic of Gilgamesh
Epic of Gilgamesh,
internet resources.
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The text as translated by Maureen Gallery Kovacs.
Epic of Gilgamesh Theatre Production
Gilgamesh
The complete text by tablet.
Sumerian epic literature. The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Four Quartets
The Four Quartets, by T. S. Eliot.
Greece. Terms from Greek literature.
The Epic of Kings
The Epic of Kings, Ferdowsi. Iran
Kalevala
The Iliad
Homer’s Iliad
Translated by Samuel Butler.
The Iliad (a map)
Image of the geography of The Iliad.
The Iliad by Homer
Searchable HTML version indexed by book, without attribution.
The Odyssey
The Odyssey, etext in English
Prose translation by Andrew Lang.
The Odyssey
The illustrated wanderings of the hero Odysseus after the Trojan War.
The Odyssey
Text-only version of Samuel Butler’s translation, provided by the Internet Classics Archive at MIT.
The Odyssey
Downloadable E-book (PDF format) of translation and commentary by Ian Johnston.
Paradise Lost
ClassicNotes: Paradise Lost
Full summary and analysis of Milton’s Paradise Lost written by Harvard students.
Paradise Lost and Regained
Full text of Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained.
Paradise Lost
Believed to be the earliest e-text. It was originally put in computer format in 1964-1965.
Paradise Lost
Project Gutenberg.
Rama and Ramayana
Rama and Ramayana epics. Ancient India
Wikipedia entry on epic poetry.
The Wasteland
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot. Poetry Foundation