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href="/wiki/Closet_drama" title="Closet drama">closet drama</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poetry" title="Poetry">Poetry</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lyric_poetry" title="Lyric poetry">lyric</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Narrative_poetry" title="Narrative poetry">narrative</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prose" title="Prose">Prose</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Literary_nonsense" title="Literary nonsense">Nonsense</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nonsense_verse" title="Nonsense verse">verse</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ergodic_literature" title="Ergodic literature">Ergodic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electronic_literature" title="Electronic literature">Electronic</a></li></ul> <table class="sidebar-subgroup"><tbody><tr><th class="sidebar-heading"> Long prose fiction</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anthology" title="Anthology">Anthology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Serial_(literature)" title="Serial (literature)">Serial</a></li> <li><a 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style="background:#ddddff;"> Prose genres</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content-with-subgroup hlist"> <table class="sidebar-subgroup"><tbody><tr><th class="sidebar-heading"> <a href="/wiki/Fiction" title="Fiction">Fiction</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Children%27s_literature" title="Children's literature">Children's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Encyclopedic_novel" title="Encyclopedic novel">Encyclopedic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Genre_fiction" title="Genre fiction">Genre</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Action_fiction" title="Action fiction">action</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adventure_fiction" title="Adventure fiction">adventure</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coming-of-age_story" title="Coming-of-age story">coming-of-age</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crime_fiction" title="Crime fiction">crime</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erotic_literature" title="Erotic literature">erotic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fantasy_literature" title="Fantasy literature">fantasy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horror_fiction" title="Horror fiction">horror</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Military_fiction" title="Military fiction">military</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paranormal_fiction" title="Paranormal fiction">paranormal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romance_novel" title="Romance novel">romance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Science_fiction" title="Science fiction">science fiction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Supernatural_fiction" title="Supernatural fiction">supernatural</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_(genre)" title="Western (genre)">western</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historical_fiction" title="Historical fiction">Historical</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Realist_literature" class="mw-redirect" title="Realist literature">Realist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Speculative_fiction" title="Speculative fiction">Speculative</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading"> <a href="/wiki/Non-fiction" title="Non-fiction">Non-fiction</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Academic_publishing" title="Academic publishing">Academic</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/History" title="History">history</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philosophy" title="Philosophy">philosophy</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anecdote" title="Anecdote">Anecdote</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Epistle" title="Epistle">Epistle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Essay" title="Essay">Essay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Journalism" title="Journalism">Journalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Letter_(message)" title="Letter (message)">Letter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Life_writing" title="Life writing">Life</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nature_writing" title="Nature writing">Nature</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Persuasive_writing" title="Persuasive writing">Persuasive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Travel_literature" title="Travel literature">Travelogue</a></li></ul></td> </tr></tbody></table></td> </tr><tr><th 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BC"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Epic_of_Gilgamesh" title="Epic of Gilgamesh">Epic of Gilgamesh</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Mesopotamian_religion" class="mw-redirect" title="Mesopotamian religion">Mesopotamian religion</a>)</li> <li>Epic of Lugalbanda (including <i><a href="/wiki/Lugalbanda_in_the_Mountain_Cave" title="Lugalbanda in the Mountain Cave">Lugalbanda in the Mountain Cave</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Lugalbanda_and_the_Anzud_Bird" title="Lugalbanda and the Anzud Bird">Lugalbanda and the Anzud Bird</a></i>, Mesopotamian religion)</li> <li>Epic of Enmerkar (including <i><a href="/wiki/Enmerkar_and_the_Lord_of_Aratta" title="Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta">Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Enmerkar_and_En-suhgir-ana" title="Enmerkar and En-suhgir-ana">Enmerkar and En-suhgir-ana</a></i>, Mesopotamian religion)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Atra-Hasis" title="Atra-Hasis">Atrahasis</a></i> (Mesopotamian religion)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Enuma_Elish" class="mw-redirect" title="Enuma Elish">Enuma Elish</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Babylonian_religion" title="Babylonian religion">Babylonian religion</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Inanna#Descent_into_the_underworld" title="Inanna">The Descent of Inanna into the Underworld</a></i> (Mesopotamian religion)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Legend_of_Keret" title="Legend of Keret">Legend of Keret</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Ugarit" title="Ugarit">Ugaritic religion</a>)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="8th_to_6th_centuries_BC">8th to 6th centuries BC</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_epic_poems&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: 8th to 6th centuries BC"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Iliad" title="Iliad">Iliad</a></i>, ascribed to <a href="/wiki/Homer" title="Homer">Homer</a> (<a href="/wiki/Greek_mythology" title="Greek mythology">Greek mythology</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Odyssey" title="Odyssey">Odyssey</a></i>, ascribed to <a href="/wiki/Homer" title="Homer">Homer</a> (Greek mythology)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Works_and_Days" title="Works and Days">Works and Days</a></i>, ascribed to <a href="/wiki/Hesiod" title="Hesiod">Hesiod</a> (Greek mythology)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Theogony" title="Theogony">Theogony</a></i>, ascribed to <a href="/wiki/Hesiod" title="Hesiod">Hesiod</a> (Greek mythology)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Shield_of_Heracles" title="Shield of Heracles">Shield of Heracles</a></i>, ascribed to <a href="/wiki/Hesiod" title="Hesiod">Hesiod</a> (Greek mythology)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Catalogue_of_Women" title="Catalogue of Women">Catalogue of Women</a></i>, ascribed to <a href="/wiki/Hesiod" title="Hesiod">Hesiod</a> (Greek mythology; only fragments survive)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Cypria" title="Cypria">Cypria</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Aethiopis" title="Aethiopis">Aethiopis</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Little_Iliad" title="Little Iliad">Little Iliad</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Iliupersis" title="Iliupersis">Iliupersis</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Nostoi" title="Nostoi">Nostoi</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Telegony" title="Telegony">Telegony</a></i>, forming the so-called <a href="/wiki/Epic_Cycle" title="Epic Cycle">Epic Cycle</a> (only fragments survive)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Oedipodea" title="Oedipodea">Oedipodea</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Thebaid_(Greek_poem)" title="Thebaid (Greek poem)">Thebaid</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Epigoni_(epic)" title="Epigoni (epic)">Epigoni</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Alcmeonis" title="Alcmeonis">Alcmeonis</a></i>, forming the so-called <a href="/wiki/Theban_Cycle" title="Theban Cycle">Theban Cycle</a> (only fragments survive)</li> <li>A series of poems ascribed to Hesiod during antiquity (of which only fragments survive): <i><a href="/wiki/Aegimius_(poem)" title="Aegimius (poem)">Aegimius</a></i> (alternatively ascribed to Cercops of Miletus), <i><a href="/wiki/Astronomia_(poem)" title="Astronomia (poem)">Astronomia</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Descent_of_Perithous" title="Descent of Perithous">Descent of Perithous</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Idaean_Dactyls_(poem)" title="Idaean Dactyls (poem)">Idaean Dactyls</a></i> (almost completely lost), <i><a href="/wiki/Megala_Erga" title="Megala Erga">Megala Erga</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Megalai_Ehoiai" title="Megalai Ehoiai">Megalai Ehoiai</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Melampodia" title="Melampodia">Melampodia</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Wedding_of_Ceyx" title="Wedding of Ceyx">Wedding of Ceyx</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Capture_of_Oechalia" title="Capture of Oechalia">Capture of Oechalia</a></i>, ascribed to Homer or <a href="/wiki/Creophylus_of_Samos" title="Creophylus of Samos">Creophylus of Samos</a> during antiquity (only a fragment survives)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Phocais" title="Phocais">Phocais</a></i>, ascribed to Homer during antiquity (only a fragment survives)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Titanomachy_(epic_poem)" title="Titanomachy (epic poem)">Titanomachy</a></i> ascribed to <a href="/wiki/Eumelus_of_Corinth" title="Eumelus of Corinth">Eumelus of Corinth</a> (only a fragment survives)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Danais_(epic)" title="Danais (epic)">Danais</a></i> (written by one of the <a href="/wiki/Cyclic_poets" class="mw-redirect" title="Cyclic poets">cyclic poets</a> and from which the Danaid tetralogy of Aeschylus draws its material), <i><a href="/wiki/Minyas_(poem)" title="Minyas (poem)">Minyas</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Naupactia" title="Naupactia">Naupactia</a></i>, almost completely lost</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="5th_to_4th_centuries_BC">5th to 4th centuries BC</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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id="3rd_century_BC">3rd century BC</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_epic_poems&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 3rd century BC"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Argonautica" title="Argonautica">Argonautica</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Apollonius_of_Rhodes" title="Apollonius of Rhodes">Apollonius of Rhodes</a> (Greek mythology)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2nd_century_BC">2nd century BC</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_epic_poems&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 2nd century BC"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Annales_(Ennius)" title="Annales (Ennius)">Annales</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Ennius" title="Ennius">Ennius</a> (Roman history; only fragments survive)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1st_century_BC">1st century BC</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_epic_poems&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: 1st century BC"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/De_rerum_natura" title="De rerum natura">De rerum natura</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Lucretius" title="Lucretius">Lucretius</a> (natural philosophy)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Georgics" title="Georgics">Georgics</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Virgil" title="Virgil">Virgil</a> (didactic poem)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Aeneid" title="Aeneid">Aeneid</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Virgil" title="Virgil">Virgil</a> (<a href="/wiki/Roman_religion" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman religion">Roman religion</a>)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1st_century_AD">1st century AD</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_epic_poems&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: 1st century AD"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Metamorphoses_(poem)" class="mw-redirect" title="Metamorphoses (poem)">Metamorphoses</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Ovid" title="Ovid">Ovid</a> (Greek and Roman mythology)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pharsalia" title="Pharsalia">Pharsalia</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Marcus_Annaeus_Lucanus" class="mw-redirect" title="Marcus Annaeus Lucanus">Lucan</a> (<a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Pharsalus" title="Battle of Pharsalus">Roman history</a>; unfinished)</li> <li><i>Argonautica</i> by <a href="/wiki/Gaius_Valerius_Flaccus" class="mw-redirect" title="Gaius Valerius Flaccus">Gaius Valerius Flaccus</a> (Roman poet, Greek mythology; incomplete)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Punica_(poem)" title="Punica (poem)">Punica</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Silius_Italicus" title="Silius Italicus">Silius Italicus</a> (<a href="/wiki/Second_Punic_War" title="Second Punic War">Roman history</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Thebaid_(Latin_poem)" title="Thebaid (Latin poem)">Thebaid</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Achilleid" title="Achilleid">Achilleid</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Statius" title="Statius">Statius</a> (Roman poet, Greek mythology; latter poem incomplete)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2nd_century">2nd century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_epic_poems&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: 2nd century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Buddhacarita" class="mw-redirect" title="Buddhacarita">Buddhacarita</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Asvaghosa" class="mw-redirect" title="Asvaghosa">Aśvaghoṣa</a> (<a href="/wiki/Indian_epic_poetry" title="Indian epic poetry">Indian epic poetry</a>)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2nd_to_5th_centuries">2nd to 5th centuries</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_epic_poems&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: 2nd to 5th centuries"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Cento_Vergilianus_de_laudibus_Christi" title="Cento Vergilianus de laudibus Christi">Cento Vergilianus de laudibus Christi</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Faltonia_Betitia_Proba" title="Faltonia Betitia Proba">Faltonia Betitia Proba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Five_Great_Epics_of_Tamil_Literature" class="mw-redirect" title="The Five Great Epics of Tamil Literature">The Five Great Epics of Tamil Literature</a>: <i><a href="/wiki/Silappatikaram" class="mw-redirect" title="Silappatikaram">Cilappatikāram</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Manimekalai" title="Manimekalai">Manimekalai</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/C%C4%ABvaka_Cint%C4%81ma%E1%B9%87i" title="Cīvaka Cintāmaṇi">Cīvaka Cintāmaṇi</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Valayapathi" title="Valayapathi">Valayapathi</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Kundalakesi" title="Kundalakesi">Kundalakēci</a></i></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="3rd_to_4th_centuries">3rd to 4th centuries</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_epic_poems&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: 3rd to 4th centuries"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Posthomerica" title="Posthomerica">Posthomerica</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Quintus_of_Smyrna" class="mw-redirect" title="Quintus of Smyrna">Quintus of Smyrna</a> (Greek mythology)</li> <li><i>De raptu Proserpinae</i> by <a href="/wiki/Claudian" title="Claudian">Claudian</a> (Roman poet, Greek mythology; incomplete)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="4th_century">4th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_epic_poems&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: 4th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Kumaarasambhavam" class="mw-redirect" title="Kumaarasambhavam">Kumārasambhava</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/K%C4%81lid%C4%81sa" class="mw-redirect" title="Kālidāsa">Kālidāsa</a> (<a href="/wiki/Indian_epic_poetry" title="Indian epic poetry">Indian epic poetry</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Raghuva%E1%B9%83%C5%9Ba" title="Raghuvaṃśa">Raghuvaṃśa</a></i> by Kālidāsa (Indian epic poetry)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Blemyomachia" title="Blemyomachia">Blemyomachia</a></i> (Greek, only fragments survive)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="5th_century">5th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span 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story of <a href="/wiki/Ardashir_I" title="Ardashir I">Ardashir I</a>, the founder of the <a href="/wiki/Sasanian_Empire" title="Sasanian Empire">Sassanid dynasty</a>, written in <a href="/wiki/Middle_Persian" title="Middle Persian">Middle Persian</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="7th_century">7th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_epic_poems&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: 7th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/T%C3%A1in_B%C3%B3_C%C3%BAailnge" title="Táin Bó Cúailnge">Táin Bó Cúailnge</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Old_Irish" title="Old Irish">Old Irish</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Bha%E1%B9%AD%E1%B9%ADik%C4%81vya" title="Bhaṭṭikāvya">Bhaṭṭikāvya</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sanskrit courtly epic based on the <a href="/wiki/R%C4%81m%C4%81ya%E1%B9%87a" class="mw-redirect" title="Rāmāyaṇa">Rāmāyaṇa</a> and the <a href="/wiki/A%E1%B9%A3%E1%B9%AD%C4%81dhy%C4%81y%C4%AB" title="Aṣṭādhyāyī">Aṣṭādhyāyī</a> of <a href="/wiki/P%C4%81%E1%B9%87ini" title="Pāṇini">Pāṇini</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Kiratarjuniya" class="mw-redirect" title="Kiratarjuniya">Kiratarjuniya</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Bharavi" title="Bharavi">Bharavi</a>, Sanskrit epic based on an episode in the <a href="/wiki/Mahabharata" title="Mahabharata">Mahabharata</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Shishupala_Vadha" title="Shishupala Vadha">Shishupala Vadha</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Magha_(poet)" title="Magha (poet)">Magha</a>, Sanskrit epic based on another episode in the <a href="/wiki/Mahabharata" title="Mahabharata">Mahabharata</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="8th_to_10th_centuries">8th to 10th centuries</h3><span 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<li><i><a href="/wiki/Bhagavata_Purana" title="Bhagavata Purana">Bhagavata Purana</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Sanskrit_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Sanskrit language">Sanskrit</a>) "<i>Stories of the Lord</i>", based on earlier sources</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lay_of_Hildebrand" class="mw-redirect" title="Lay of Hildebrand">Lay of Hildebrand</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Muspilli" title="Muspilli">Muspilli</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Old_High_German" title="Old High German">Old High German</a>, <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 870</span>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Kakawin_Ramayana" title="Kakawin Ramayana">Kakawin Ramayana</a></i>, Javanese version of the Ramayana (c. 870)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Shahnameh" title="Shahnameh">Shahnameh</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Persian_literature" title="Persian literature">Persian literature</a>; details <a href="/wiki/History_of_Iran" title="History of Iran">Persian</a> legend and history from prehistoric times to the fall of the <a href="/wiki/Sassanid_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Sassanid Empire">Sassanid Empire</a>, by <a href="/wiki/Ferdowsi" title="Ferdowsi">Ferdowsi</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Waltharius" title="Waltharius">Waltharius</a></i> by Ekkehard of St. Gall (Germany, <a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a>); about <a href="/wiki/Walter_of_Aquitaine" title="Walter of Aquitaine">Walter of Aquitaine</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Poetic_Edda" title="Poetic Edda">Poetic Edda</a></i> (no particular authorship; oral tradition of the <a href="/wiki/Germanic_peoples" title="Germanic peoples">North Germanic peoples</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Vikramarjuna_Vijaya" title="Vikramarjuna Vijaya">Vikramarjuna Vijaya</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/%C4%80di_pur%C4%81%E1%B9%87a" title="Ādi purāṇa">Ādi purāṇa</a></i> (c. 941), <a href="/wiki/Kannada" title="Kannada">Kannada</a> poems by <a href="/wiki/Adikavi_Pampa" title="Adikavi Pampa">Adikavi Pampa</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ajitha_Purana" class="mw-redirect" title="Ajitha Purana">Ajitha Purana</a></i> and <i>Gadaayuddha</i> (c.993 and c.999), Kannada poems by <a href="/wiki/Ranna_(Kannada_poet)" title="Ranna (Kannada poet)">Ranna</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Neelakesi" title="Neelakesi">Neelakesi</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Tamil_language" title="Tamil language">Tamil</a> Jain epic)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="11th_century">11th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_epic_poems&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: 11th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%E1%83%95%E1%83%94%E1%83%A4%E1%83%AE%E1%83%98%E1%83%A1%E1%83%A2%E1%83%A7%E1%83%90%E1%83%9D%E1%83%A1%E1%83%90%E1%83%9C%E1%83%98_XVII_%E1%83%A1%E1%83%90%E1%83%A3%E1%83%99%E1%83%A3%E1%83%9C%E1%83%94.jpg" 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href="/wiki/The_Knight_in_the_Panther%27s_Skin" title="The Knight in the Panther's Skin">The Knight in the Panther's Skin</a> by <a href="/wiki/Shota_Rustaveli" title="Shota Rustaveli">Shota Rustaveli</a>, one of the greatest Georgian poets.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Taghribat_Bani_Hilal" class="mw-redirect" title="Taghribat Bani Hilal">Taghribat Bani Hilal</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a>); see also <a href="/wiki/Arabic_epic_literature" title="Arabic epic literature">Arabic epic literature</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Andhra_Mahabharatam" title="Andhra Mahabharatam">Andhra Mahabharatam</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Telugu_language" title="Telugu language">Telugu</a>) by <a href="/wiki/Nannayya" title="Nannayya">Nannayya</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ruodlieb" title="Ruodlieb">Ruodlieb</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a>), by a German author</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Digenis_Acritas" class="mw-redirect" title="Digenis Acritas">Digenis Akritas</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a>); about a hero of the <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine Empire</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Epic_of_King_Gesar" title="Epic of King Gesar">Epic of King Gesar</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Classical_Tibetan" title="Classical Tibetan">Tibetan</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Garshaspname" class="mw-redirect" title="Garshaspname">Garshaspname</a></i> (Persian) by Asadi Tusi (1066)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Carmen_Campidoctoris" class="mw-redirect" title="Carmen Campidoctoris">Carmen Campidoctoris</a></i>, the first poem about <a href="/wiki/El_Cid" title="El Cid">El Cid</a> (c. 1083)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Song_of_Armouris" title="Song of Armouris">Song of Armouris</a></i> (Byzantine, <a href="/wiki/Acritic_songs" title="Acritic songs">acritic song</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Borzu_Nama" title="Borzu Nama">Borzu Nama</a></i>, ascribed to 'Amid Abu'l 'Ala' 'Ata b. Yaqub Kateb Razi (Persian epic with a main character and a poetic style related to the "Shahnameh")</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Faramarz_Nama" class="mw-redirect" title="Faramarz Nama">Faramarz Nama</a></i> (Persian epic with a main character and a poetic style related to the "Shahnameh")</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mushika-vamsha" title="Mushika-vamsha">Mushika-vamsha</a></i> (Sanskrit) by <a href="/wiki/Atula" class="mw-redirect" title="Atula">Atula</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Song_of_Roland" class="mw-redirect" title="The Song of Roland">The Song of Roland</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Old_French" title="Old French">Old French</a>)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="12th_century">12th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_epic_poems&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: 12th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Khamba_Thoibi" class="mw-redirect" title="Khamba Thoibi">Khamba Thoibi</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Meitei_language" title="Meitei language">Manipuri</a> Epic by Hijam Anganghal)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Acallam_na_Sen%C3%B3rach" title="Acallam na Senórach">Acallam na Senórach</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Middle_Irish" title="Middle Irish">Middle Irish</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Historia_Regum_Britanniae" title="Historia Regum Britanniae">Historia Regum Britanniae</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Knight_in_the_Panther%27s_Skin" title="The Knight in the Panther's Skin">The Knight in the Panther's Skin</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Georgian_language" title="Georgian language">Georgian</a>) by <a href="/wiki/Shota_Rustaveli" title="Shota Rustaveli">Shota Rustaveli</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Alexandreis" title="Alexandreis">Alexandreis</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Walter_of_Ch%C3%A2tillon" title="Walter of Châtillon">Walter of Châtillon</a> (<a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/De_bello_Troiano" title="De bello Troiano">De bello Troiano</a></i> and the lost <i><a href="/wiki/Antiocheis_(Joseph_of_Exeter)" class="mw-redirect" title="Antiocheis (Joseph of Exeter)">Antiocheis</a></i> (Latin) by <a href="/wiki/Joseph_of_Exeter" title="Joseph of Exeter">Joseph of Exeter</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Carmen_de_Prodicione_Guenonis" title="Carmen de Prodicione Guenonis">Carmen de Prodicione Guenonis</a></i>, version of the story of the <i>Song of Roland</i> in <a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Architrenius" title="Architrenius">Architrenius</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/John_of_Hauville" title="John of Hauville">John of Hauville</a>, (<a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a> satire)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Liber_ad_honorem_Augusti" title="Liber ad honorem Augusti">Liber ad honorem Augusti</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Peter_of_Eboli" title="Peter of Eboli">Peter of Eboli</a>, narrative of the conquest of <a href="/wiki/Sicily" title="Sicily">Sicily</a> by <a href="/wiki/Henry_VI,_Holy_Roman_Emperor" title="Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor">Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor</a> (<a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Tale_of_Igor%27s_Campaign" title="The Tale of Igor's Campaign">The Tale of Igor's Campaign</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Bylinas" class="mw-redirect" title="Bylinas">Bylinas</a></i> (Old east Slavic) (11th–19th centuries)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gita_Govinda" title="Gita Govinda">Gita Govinda</a></i> (Sanskrit) by <a href="/wiki/Jayadeva" title="Jayadeva">Jayadeva</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Naishadha_Charita" title="Naishadha Charita">Naishadha Charita</a></i> (Sanskrit) by <a href="/wiki/Sriharsha" class="mw-redirect" title="Sriharsha">Sriharsha</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Parishishtaparvan" title="Parishishtaparvan">Parishishtaparvan</a></i> (Sanskrit) by <a href="/wiki/Hemachandra" title="Hemachandra">Hemachandra</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Prithviraja_Vijaya" title="Prithviraja Vijaya">Prithviraja Vijaya</a></i> (Sanskrit) by Jayanaka (1191–1192)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Roman_de_Troie" title="Roman de Troie">Roman de Troie</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Beno%C3%AEt_de_Sainte-Maure" title="Benoît de Sainte-Maure">Benoît de Sainte-Maure</a> (<a href="/wiki/Old_French" title="Old French">Old French</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Roman_de_Brut" title="Roman de Brut">Roman de Brut</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Roman_de_Rou" title="Roman de Rou">Roman de Rou</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Wace" title="Wace">Wace</a> (<a href="/wiki/Old_French" title="Old French">Old French</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Poem_of_Almer%C3%ADa" title="Poem of Almería">Poem of Almería</a></i> (Latin)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Eupolemius" title="Eupolemius">Eupolemius</a></i> (Latin) by an anonymous German-speaking author</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Bahman_Nama" class="mw-redirect" title="Bahman Nama">Bahman Nama</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Kush_Nama" title="Kush Nama">Kush Nama</a></i> (Persian) ascribed to Hakim Īrānšāh b. Abi'l Khayr</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Banu_Goshasp" title="Banu Goshasp">Banu Goshasp Nama</a></i> (Persian)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ramavataram" title="Ramavataram">Ramavataram</a></i> (Tamil) by <a href="/wiki/Kambar_(poet)" title="Kambar (poet)">Kambar</a>, based on the "Ramayana"</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Crusade_cycle" title="Crusade cycle">Cycle of the First Crusade</a></i> (Old French) by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Graindor_de_Douai&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Graindor de Douai (page does not exist)">Graindor de Douai</a> and others</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="13th_century">13th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_epic_poems&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: 13th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Nibelungenlied" title="Nibelungenlied">Nibelungenlied</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Middle_High_German" title="Middle High German">Middle High German</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Kudrun" title="Kudrun">Kudrun</a></i> (Middle High German)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Daniel_von_dem_bl%C3%BChenden_Tal" title="Daniel von dem blühenden Tal">Daniel von dem blühenden Tal</a></i> (Middle High German)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Brut_(Layamon)" class="mw-redirect" title="Brut (Layamon)">Brut</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Layamon" title="Layamon">Layamon</a> (Early <a href="/wiki/Middle_English" title="Middle English">Middle English</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Chanson_de_la_Croisade_Albigeoise" class="mw-redirect" title="Chanson de la Croisade Albigeoise">Chanson de la Croisade Albigeoise</a></i> ("Song of the Albigensian Crusade"; <a href="/wiki/Old_Occitan" title="Old Occitan">Old Occitan</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Antarah_ibn_Shaddad" title="Antarah ibn Shaddad">Antar</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a>); see also <a href="/wiki/Arabic_epic_literature" title="Arabic epic literature">Arabic epic literature</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sirat_al-Zahir_Baibars" class="mw-redirect" title="Sirat al-Zahir Baibars">Sirat al-Zahir Baibars</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a>); see also <a href="/wiki/Arabic_epic_literature" title="Arabic epic literature">Arabic epic literature</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Osman%27s_Dream" title="Osman's Dream">Osman's Dream</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Turkish_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Ottoman Turkish language">Ottoman Turkish</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Epic_of_Sundiata" title="Epic of Sundiata">Epic of Sundiata</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Malinke_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Malinke people">Malinke People</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Cantar_de_Mio_Cid" class="mw-redirect" title="Cantar de Mio Cid">El Cantar de Mio Cid</a></i>, Spanish epic of the <a href="/wiki/Reconquista" title="Reconquista">Reconquista</a> (<a href="/wiki/Old_Spanish" title="Old Spanish">Old Spanish</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/De_triumphis_ecclesiae" title="De triumphis ecclesiae">De triumphis ecclesiae</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Johannes_de_Garlandia_(philologist)" class="mw-redirect" title="Johannes de Garlandia (philologist)">Johannes de Garlandia</a> (<a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gesta_Regum_Britanniae" title="Gesta Regum Britanniae">Gesta Regum Britanniae</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/William_of_Rennes" title="William of Rennes">William of Rennes</a> (<a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Van_den_vos_Reynaerde" title="Van den vos Reynaerde">Van den vos Reynaerde</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Middle_Dutch" title="Middle Dutch">Middle Dutch</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Poema_de_Fern%C3%A1n_Gonz%C3%A1lez" title="Poema de Fernán González">Poema de Fernán González</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Cantar_de_gesta" title="Cantar de gesta">cantar de gesta</a> by a monk of San Pedro de Arlanza; 1250–1266 (<a href="/wiki/Old_Spanish_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Old Spanish language">Old Spanish</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jewang_ungi" class="mw-redirect" title="Jewang ungi">Jewang ungi</a></i> by Yi Seung-hyu ("Rhymed Chronicles of Sovereigns"; 1287 <a href="/wiki/Korea" title="Korea">Korea</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Basava_purana" class="mw-redirect" title="Basava purana">Basava purana</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Palkuriki_Somanatha" title="Palkuriki Somanatha">Palkuriki Somanatha</a> (<a href="/wiki/Telugu_language" title="Telugu language">Telugu</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jahangirnameh" title="Jahangirnameh">Jahangirnameh</a></i> by Qāsem-e Mādeḥ (largely an imitation of the <a href="/wiki/Borzu_Nama" title="Borzu Nama">Borzu Nama</a>)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="14th_century">14th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_epic_poems&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: 14th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Alliterative_Morte_Arthure" title="Alliterative Morte Arthure">Alliterative Morte Arthure</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Middle_English" title="Middle English">Middle English</a>)(c. 1375–1400)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Divine_Comedy" title="Divine Comedy">Divine Comedy</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Christian_mythology" title="Christian mythology">Christian mythology</a>) by <a href="/wiki/Dante_Alighieri" title="Dante Alighieri">Dante Alighieri</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Cursor_Mundi" title="Cursor Mundi">Cursor Mundi</a></i> (Middle English) by an anonymous cleric (c. 1300)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Africa_(Petrarch)" title="Africa (Petrarch)">Africa</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Petrarch" title="Petrarch">Petrarch</a> (<a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Tale_of_the_Heike" title="The Tale of the Heike">The Tale of the Heike</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Japanese_people" title="Japanese people">Japanese</a> epic war tale</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Brus" title="The Brus">The Brus</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/John_Barbour_(poet)" title="John Barbour (poet)">John Barbour</a> (<a href="/wiki/Scots_language" title="Scots language">Scots</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/La_Spagna" title="La Spagna">La Spagna</a></i> (Italian) attributed to Sostegno di Zanobi (c. 1350–1360)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mocedades_de_Rodrigo" title="Mocedades de Rodrigo">Mocedades de Rodrigo</a></i> (Old Spanish) (c. 1360)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Jerusalem_(poem)" title="Siege of Jerusalem (poem)">Siege of Jerusalem</a></i> (c. 1370–1380, <a href="/wiki/Middle_English" title="Middle English">Middle English</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Troilus_and_Criseyde" title="Troilus and Criseyde">Troilus and Criseyde</a></i> (Middle English) by <a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_Chaucer" title="Geoffrey Chaucer">Geoffrey Chaucer</a> (c.1380)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mabinogi" class="mw-redirect" title="Mabinogi">Mabinogi</a> (Middle Welsh)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Zafarnamah_(Mustawfi)" title="Zafarnamah (Mustawfi)">Zafarnamah</a></i> (Persian) by <a href="/wiki/Hamdollah_Mostowfi" class="mw-redirect" title="Hamdollah Mostowfi">Hamdollah Mostowfi</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="15th_century">15th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_epic_poems&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: 15th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Hammira_Mahakavya" title="Hammira Mahakavya">Hammira Mahakavya</a></i> by Nayachandra Suri (Sanskrit)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Fall_of_the_Princes" class="mw-redirect" title="The Fall of the Princes">The Fall of the Princes</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/John_Lydgate" title="John Lydgate">John Lydgate</a> (1431–1438)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Yuan_Phai" title="Yuan Phai">Yuan Phai</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Thai_language" title="Thai language">Thai</a>: <span lang="th">ลิลิตยวนพ่าย</span>) by Royal Poets of King <a href="/wiki/Borommatrailokkanat" title="Borommatrailokkanat">Borommatrai-lokkanat</a> (c. 1475)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mahachat_Khamluang" class="mw-redirect" title="Mahachat Khamluang">Mahachat Kham luang</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Thai_language" title="Thai language">Thai</a>: <span lang="th">มหาชาติคำหลวง</span>) a Siamese retelling of <a href="/wiki/Vessantara_Jataka" class="mw-redirect" title="Vessantara Jataka">Vessantara Jataka</a> by Royal Poets of King <a href="/wiki/Borommatrailokkanat" title="Borommatrailokkanat">Borommatrai-lokkanat</a> (1492)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Orlando_innamorato" class="mw-redirect" title="Orlando innamorato">Orlando innamorato</a></i> (Italian) by <a href="/wiki/Matteo_Maria_Boiardo" title="Matteo Maria Boiardo">Matteo Maria Boiardo</a> (1495)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Shmuel-Bukh" title="Shmuel-Bukh">Shmuel-Bukh</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Yiddish" title="Yiddish">Old Yiddish</a> chivalry romance based on the Biblical <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Samuel" class="mw-redirect" title="Book of Samuel">book of Samuel</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mlokhim-Bukh" title="Mlokhim-Bukh">Mlokhim-Bukh</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Yiddish" title="Yiddish">Old Yiddish</a> epic poem based on the Biblical <a href="/wiki/Books_of_Kings" title="Books of Kings">Books of Kings</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Book_of_Dede_Korkut" title="Book of Dede Korkut">Book of Dede Korkut</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Oghuz_Turks" title="Oghuz Turks">Oghuz Turks</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Le_Morte_d%27Arthur" title="Le Morte d'Arthur">Le Morte d'Arthur</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Middle_English" title="Middle English">Middle English</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Morgante" title="Morgante">Morgante</a></i> (Italian) by <a href="/wiki/Luigi_Pulci" title="Luigi Pulci">Luigi Pulci</a> (1485), with elements typical of the mock-heroic genre</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Wallace_(poem)" title="The Wallace (poem)">The Wallace</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Blind_Harry" title="Blind Harry">Blind Harry</a> (<a href="/wiki/Scots_language" title="Scots language">Scots</a> chivalric poem)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Troy_Book" title="Troy Book">Troy Book</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/John_Lydgate" title="John Lydgate">John Lydgate</a>, about the Trojan war (Middle English)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Heldenbuch" title="Heldenbuch">Heldenbuch</a></i> (Middle High German) a group of manuscripts and prints of the 15th and 16th centuries, typically including material from the <a href="/wiki/Theodoric_cycle" class="mw-redirect" title="Theodoric cycle">Theodoric cycle</a> and the cycle of Hugdietrich, <a href="/wiki/Wolfdietrich" title="Wolfdietrich">Wolfdietrich</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ortnit" title="Ortnit">Ortnit</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ibong_Adarna" title="Ibong Adarna">Ibong Adarna</a></i> (Filipino) whose real author is not known</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Modern_epics_(from_1500)"><span id="Modern_epics_.28from_1500.29"></span>Modern epics (from 1500)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_epic_poems&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Modern epics (from 1500)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="16th_century">16th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_epic_poems&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: 16th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Lilit_Phra_Lo" title="Lilit Phra Lo">Lilit Phra Lo</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Thai_language" title="Thai language">Thai</a>: <span lang="th">ลิลิตพระลอ</span>) by King <a href="/wiki/Ramathibodi_II" title="Ramathibodi II">Ramathibodi II</a> (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1491</span>–1529)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Judita" title="Judita">Judita</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Croatian_language" title="Croatian language">Croatian</a>) by <a href="/wiki/Marko_Maruli%C4%87" title="Marko Marulić">Marko Marulić</a> (1501)</li> <li><i>Shahenshah Nameh</i> and Khamsa (including <a href="/wiki/Timurnama" title="Timurnama">Timurnameh</a>) by <a href="/wiki/Hatefi" title="Hatefi">Hatefi</a>, Poetic Epics One about expolits of Shah <a href="/wiki/Ismail_I" title="Ismail I">Ismail I</a> and the other about <a href="/wiki/Timur" title="Timur">Timur</a> (1510)</li> <li><i>Ismailnameh</i> an epic poem on shah Ismail I heroic deeds by Qsimi Qunabadi nephew of <a href="/wiki/Hatifi" class="mw-redirect" title="Hatifi">Hatifi</a> (1513)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Orlando_Furioso" title="Orlando Furioso">Orlando Furioso</a></i> (Italian) by <a href="/wiki/Ludovico_Ariosto" title="Ludovico Ariosto">Ludovico Ariosto</a> (1516)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Theuerdank" title="Theuerdank">Theuerdank</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Weisskunig" title="Weisskunig">Weisskunig</a></i> (<i>Weisskunig</i> only got published in 1775<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) by <a href="/wiki/Maximilian_I,_Holy_Roman_Emperor" title="Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor">Maximilian I</a> and <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx_Treitzsaurwein" class="extiw" title="de:Marx Treitzsaurwein">Marx Treitzsaurwein</a>, often considered the last medieval epics.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Davidiad" title="Davidiad">Davidiad</a></i> (Latin) by <a href="/wiki/Marko_Maruli%C4%87" title="Marko Marulić">Marko Marulić</a> (1517)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Christiad" title="Christiad">Christiad</a></i> (Latin) by <a href="/wiki/Marco_Girolamo_Vida" title="Marco Girolamo Vida">Marco Girolamo Vida</a> (1535)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Padmavat" title="Padmavat">Padmavat</a></i> (Hindustani) by <a href="/wiki/Malik_Muhammad_Jayasi" title="Malik Muhammad Jayasi">Malik Muhammad Jayasi</a> (1540)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/S%C3%BCleymanname" title="Süleymanname">Süleymanname</a></i> by Arifi çelebi (1558)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sang_Sinxay" title="Sang Sinxay">Sang Sinxay</a></i>, the most famous epic poem of <a href="/wiki/Laos" title="Laos">Laos</a>, was written around mid sixteenth century.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Franciade_(poem)" title="Franciade (poem)">Franciade</a></i> (French) by <a href="/wiki/Pierre_de_Ronsard" title="Pierre de Ronsard">Pierre de Ronsard</a> (1540s–1572)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Os_Lus%C3%ADadas" title="Os Lusíadas">Os Lusíadas</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Lu%C3%ADs_de_Cam%C3%B5es" title="Luís de Camões">Luís de Camões</a> (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1572</span>)<sup id="cite_ref-WDL_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WDL-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/L%27Amadigi" title="L'Amadigi">L'Amadigi</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Bernardo_Tasso" title="Bernardo Tasso">Bernardo Tasso</a> (1560)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/La_Araucana" title="La Araucana">La Araucana</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Alonso_de_Ercilla_y_Z%C3%BA%C3%B1iga" class="mw-redirect" title="Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga">Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga</a> (1569–1589)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jerusalem_Delivered" title="Jerusalem Delivered">La Gerusalemme liberata</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Torquato_Tasso" title="Torquato Tasso">Torquato Tasso</a> (1575)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ramacharitamanasa" class="mw-redirect" title="Ramacharitamanasa">Ramacharitamanasa</a></i> (based on the <i><a href="/wiki/Ramayana" title="Ramayana">Ramayana</a></i>) by Goswami <a href="/wiki/Tulsidas" title="Tulsidas">Tulsidas</a> (1577)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Faerie_Queene" title="The Faerie Queene">The Faerie Queene</a></i> (Early Modern English) by <a href="/wiki/Edmund_Spenser" title="Edmund Spenser">Edmund Spenser</a> (1596)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Venus_and_Adonis_(Shakespeare_poem)" title="Venus and Adonis (Shakespeare poem)">Venus and Adonis</a></i> (1593) and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Rape_of_Lucrece" title="The Rape of Lucrece">Lucrece</a></i> (1594) (Early Modern English) by <a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">Shakespeare</a></li> <li>The <i><a href="/wiki/Dam_San" title="Dam San">Dam San</a></i> of the <a href="/wiki/Ede_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Ede people">Ede people</a> (now in <a href="/wiki/Vietnam" title="Vietnam">Vietnam</a>) is often considered to appear in the 16th or 17th century.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="17th_century">17th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America">Exact Epitome of the Four Monarchies</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Anne_Bradstreet" title="Anne Bradstreet">Anne Bradstreet</a> (1650)<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Peril_of_Sziget" class="mw-redirect" title="Peril of Sziget">Szigeti veszedelem</a></i>, also known under the Latin title <i>Obsidionis Szigetianae</i>, a <a href="/wiki/Hungarian_language" title="Hungarian language">Hungarian</a> epic by <a href="/wiki/Nikola_Zrinski" class="mw-redirect" title="Nikola Zrinski">Miklós Zrínyi</a> (1651)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gondibert" title="Gondibert">Gondibert</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/William_Davenant" title="William Davenant">William Davenant</a> (1651)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Paradise_Lost" title="Paradise Lost">Paradise Lost</a></i> (1667) (English) and <i><a href="/wiki/Paradise_Regained" title="Paradise Regained">Paradise Regained</a></i> (1671) by <a href="/wiki/John_Milton" title="John Milton">John Milton</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Khun_Chang_Khun_Phaen" title="Khun Chang Khun Phaen">Khun Chang Khun Phaen</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Thai_language" title="Thai language">Thai</a>: <span lang="th">ขุนช้างขุนแผน</span>), a Thai epic poem by anonymous folk poets (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1650</span>–1700)<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="18th_century">18th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_epic_poems&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: 18th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Kumulipo" title="Kumulipo">Kumulipo</a></i> by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Keaulumoku&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Keaulumoku (page does not exist)">Keaulumoku</a> (1700), an <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Hawaii" title="Ancient Hawaii">Ancient Hawaiian</a> cosmogonic genealogy first published in 1889</li> <li><i>Telemachus</i> by <a href="/wiki/Anna_Seward" title="Anna Seward">Anna Seward</a> (epic re-telling of <a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_F%C3%A9nelon" title="François Fénelon">François Fénelon</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Les_Aventures_de_T%C3%A9l%C3%A9maque" title="Les Aventures de Télémaque">Les Aventures de Télémaque</a></i>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Henriade" title="Henriade">Henriade</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Voltaire" title="Voltaire">Voltaire</a> (1723)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Utendi_wa_Tambuka" title="Utendi wa Tambuka">Utendi wa Tambuka</a></i> by Bwana Mwengo (1728)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Der_Messias_(Klopstock)" title="Der Messias (Klopstock)">Der Messias</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Gottlieb_Klopstock" title="Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock">Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock</a> (1748–1773)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Maid_of_Orleans_(poem)" title="The Maid of Orleans (poem)">La Pucelle d'Orléans</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Voltaire" title="Voltaire">Voltaire</a> (1756)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ossian" title="Ossian">Poems of Ossian</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/James_Macpherson" title="James Macpherson">James Macpherson</a> (1760–1765)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Seasons_(poem)" title="The Seasons (poem)">The Seasons</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Kristijonas_Donelaitis" title="Kristijonas Donelaitis">Kristijonas Donelaitis</a> (1765–1775)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/O_Uraguai" title="O Uraguai">O Uraguai</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Bas%C3%ADlio_da_Gama" title="Basílio da Gama">Basílio da Gama</a> (1769)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Caoineadh_Airt_U%C3%AD_Laoghaire" title="Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire">Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Eibhl%C3%ADn_Dubh_N%C3%AD_Chonaill" title="Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill">Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill</a> (1773)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/O_Desertor_das_Letras" title="O Desertor das Letras">O Desertor das Letras</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Manuel_In%C3%A1cio_da_Silva_Alvarenga" title="Manuel Inácio da Silva Alvarenga">Silva Alvarenga</a> (1774), a short <a href="/wiki/Mock-heroic" title="Mock-heroic">mock-heroic epic</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Caramuru_(epic_poem)" title="Caramuru (epic poem)">Caramuru</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Santa_Rita_Dur%C3%A3o" title="Santa Rita Durão">Santa Rita Durão</a> (1781)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Joan_of_Arc_(poem)" title="Joan of Arc (poem)">Joan of Arc</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Robert_Southey" title="Robert Southey">Robert Southey</a> (1796)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hermann_and_Dorothea" title="Hermann and Dorothea">Hermann and Dorothea</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe" title="Johann Wolfgang von Goethe">Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</a> (1797)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="19th_century">19th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_epic_poems&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: 19th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Tale_of_Kieu" title="The Tale of Kieu">The Tale of Kiều</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_Du" title="Nguyễn Du">Nguyễn Du</a> (c. 1800)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Thalaba_the_Destroyer" title="Thalaba the Destroyer">Thalaba the Destroyer</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Robert_Southey" title="Robert Southey">Robert Southey</a> (1801)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Madoc_(poem)" title="Madoc (poem)">Madoc</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Robert_Southey" title="Robert Southey">Robert Southey</a> (1805)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mary_Tighe#Works" title="Mary Tighe">Psyche</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Mary_Tighe" title="Mary Tighe">Mary Tighe</a> (1805)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Columbiad" title="The Columbiad">The Columbiad</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Joel_Barlow" title="Joel Barlow">Joel Barlow</a> (1807)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Milton:_A_Poem_in_Two_Books" title="Milton: A Poem in Two Books">Milton: A Poem</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/William_Blake" title="William Blake">William Blake</a> (1804–1810)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Marmion_(poem)" title="Marmion (poem)">Marmion</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Walter_Scott" title="Walter Scott">Walter Scott</a> (1808)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Alipashiad" title="Alipashiad">Alipashiad</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Haxhi_Shehreti" class="mw-redirect" title="Haxhi Shehreti">Haxhi Shehreti</a> (before 1817)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Childe_Harold%27s_Pilgrimage" title="Childe Harold's Pilgrimage">Childe Harold's Pilgrimage</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Lord_Byron" title="Lord Byron">Lord Byron</a>, narrating the travels of Childe Harold (1812–1818)<sup id="cite_ref-Stephen_Greenblatt_2012_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stephen_Greenblatt_2012-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Queen_Mab_(poem)" title="Queen Mab (poem)">Queen Mab</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley" title="Percy Bysshe Shelley">Percy Bysshe Shelley</a> (1813)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Roderick_the_Last_of_the_Goths" title="Roderick the Last of the Goths">Roderick the Last of the Goths</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Robert_Southey" title="Robert Southey">Robert Southey</a> (1814)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Isles" title="The Lord of the Isles">The Lord of the Isles</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Walter_Scott" title="Walter Scott">Walter Scott</a> (1813)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Alastor,_or_The_Spirit_of_Solitude" title="Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude">Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley" title="Percy Bysshe Shelley">Percy Bysshe Shelley</a> (1815)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Revolt_of_Islam" title="The Revolt of Islam">The Revolt of Islam</a> (Laon and Cyntha)</i> by <a href="/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley" title="Percy Bysshe Shelley">Percy Bysshe Shelley</a> (1817)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Harold_the_Dauntless" title="Harold the Dauntless">Harold the Dauntless</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Walter_Scott" title="Walter Scott">Walter Scott</a> (1817)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Manuscripts_of_Dv%C5%AFr_Kr%C3%A1lov%C3%A9_and_Zelen%C3%A1_Hora" title="Manuscripts of Dvůr Králové and Zelená Hora">Manuscripts of Dvůr Králové and Zelená Hora</a></i>, forged epic published in 1818</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Endymion_(poem)" title="Endymion (poem)">Endymion</a></i> (1818) by <a href="/wiki/John_Keats" title="John Keats">John Keats</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hyperion_(poem)" title="Hyperion (poem)">Hyperion</a></i> (1818) and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Fall_of_Hyperion:_A_Dream" title="The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream">The Fall of Hyperion</a></i> (1819) by <a href="/wiki/John_Keats" title="John Keats">John Keats</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Battle_of_Marathon:_A_Poem" class="mw-redirect" title="The Battle of Marathon: A Poem">The Battle of Marathon</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Barrett_Browning" title="Elizabeth Barrett Browning">Elizabeth Barrett Browning</a> (1820)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Phra_Aphai_Mani" title="Phra Aphai Mani">Phra Aphai Mani</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Sunthorn_Phu" title="Sunthorn Phu">Sunthorn Phu</a> (1821 or 1822–1844)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Don_Juan_(poem)" title="Don Juan (poem)">Don Juan</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Lord_Byron" title="Lord Byron">Lord Byron</a> (1824), an example of a "mock" epic in that it parodies the epic style of the author's predecessors<sup id="cite_ref-Stephen_Greenblatt_2012_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stephen_Greenblatt_2012-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Camões</i> by <a href="/wiki/Almeida_Garrett" title="Almeida Garrett">Almeida Garrett</a> (1825), narrating the last years and deeds of <a href="/wiki/Lu%C3%ADs_de_Cam%C3%B5es" title="Luís de Camões">Luís de Camões</a></li> <li><i>Dona Branca</i> by <a href="/wiki/Almeida_Garrett" title="Almeida Garrett">Almeida Garrett</a> (1826), the fantastic tale of the forbidden love between <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_people" title="Portuguese people">Portuguese</a> princess Branca and <a href="/wiki/Moors" title="Moors">Moorish</a> king Aben-Afan</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tamerlane_(poem)" title="Tamerlane (poem)">Tamerlane</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe" title="Edgar Allan Poe">Edgar Allan Poe</a> (1827)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Gypsies_(poem)" title="The Gypsies (poem)">The Gypsies (poem)</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Pushkin" title="Alexander Pushkin">Alexander Pushkin</a> (1827)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Free_Besieged" title="The Free Besieged">The Free Besieged</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Dionysios_Solomos" title="Dionysios Solomos">Dionysios Solomos</a> (1828–1851)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Fall_of_Nineveh" title="The Fall of Nineveh">The Fall of Nineveh</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Edwin_Atherstone" title="Edwin Atherstone">Edwin Atherstone</a> (1828–1868)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Creation,_Man_and_the_Messiah" title="Creation, Man and the Messiah">Creation, Man and the Messiah</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Henrik_Wergeland" title="Henrik Wergeland">Henrik Wergeland</a> (1829)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Bronze_Horseman_(poem)" title="The Bronze Horseman (poem)">The Bronze Horseman</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Pushkin" title="Alexander Pushkin">Alexander Pushkin</a> (1833)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Prometheus_Bound" title="Prometheus Bound">Prometheus Bound</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Aeschylus" title="Aeschylus">Aeschylus</a>, translated by <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Barrett_Browning" title="Elizabeth Barrett Browning">Elizabeth Barrett Browning</a> (1833)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Messiah%27s_Kingdom" title="Messiah's Kingdom">Messiah's Kingdom</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Agnes_Bulmer" title="Agnes Bulmer">Agnes Bulmer</a> (1833)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pan_Tadeusz" title="Pan Tadeusz">Pan Tadeusz</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Adam_Mickiewicz" title="Adam Mickiewicz">Adam Mickiewicz</a> (1834)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Baptism_on_the_Savica" title="The Baptism on the Savica">The Baptism on the Savica</a></i> (<i>Krst pri Savici</i>) by <a href="/wiki/France_Pre%C5%A1eren" title="France Prešeren">France Prešeren</a> (1836)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Florante_at_Laura" title="Florante at Laura">Florante at Laura</a></i>, an <i><a href="/wiki/Awit_(poem)" title="Awit (poem)">awit</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Francisco_Balagtas" title="Francisco Balagtas">Francisco Balagtas</a> (1838)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Haidamaky_(poem)" title="Haidamaky (poem)">Haidamaky</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Taras_Shevchenko" title="Taras Shevchenko">Taras Shevchenko</a> (1841)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/King_Alfred_(poem)" title="King Alfred (poem)">King Alfred</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/John_Fitchett_(poet)" title="John Fitchett (poet)">John Fitchett</a> (completed by Robert Roscoe and published in 1841–1842)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lays_of_Ancient_Rome#Horatius" title="Lays of Ancient Rome">Horatius</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Babington_Macaulay" title="Thomas Babington Macaulay">Thomas Babington Macaulay</a> (1842)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Germany._A_Winter%27s_Tale" title="Germany. A Winter's Tale">Germany. A Winter's Tale</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Heinrich_Heine" title="Heinrich Heine">Heinrich Heine</a> (1843), a "mock" epic</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/J%C3%A1nos_Vit%C3%A9z" class="mw-redirect" title="János Vitéz">János Vitéz</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/S%C3%A1ndor_Pet%C5%91fi" title="Sándor Petőfi">Sándor Petőfi</a> (1845)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Smrt_Smail-age_%C4%8Cengi%C4%87a" class="mw-redirect" title="Smrt Smail-age Čengića">Smrt Smail-age Čengića</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Ivan_Ma%C5%BEurani%C4%87" title="Ivan Mažuranić">Ivan Mažuranić</a> (1846)</li> <li><i>Toldi</i> (1846), <i>Toldi szerelme</i> ("<i>Toldi's Love</i>", 1879) and <i>Toldi estéje</i> ("<i>Toldi's Night</i>", 1848) by <a href="/wiki/J%C3%A1nos_Arany" title="János Arany">János Arany</a>, forming the so-called "<a href="/wiki/Toldi_trilogy" title="Toldi trilogy">Toldi trilogy</a>"</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Evangeline" title="Evangeline">Evangeline</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow" title="Henry Wadsworth Longfellow">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</a> (1847)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Mountain_Wreath" title="The Mountain Wreath">The Mountain Wreath</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Petar_II_Petrovi%C4%87-Njego%C5%A1" title="Petar II Petrović-Njegoš">Petar II Petrović-Njegoš</a> (1847)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Tales_of_Ensign_St%C3%A5l" title="The Tales of Ensign Stål">The Tales of Ensign Stål</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Johan_Ludvig_Runeberg" title="Johan Ludvig Runeberg">Johan Ludvig Runeberg</a> (first part published in 1848, second part published in 1860)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Kalevala" title="Kalevala">Kalevala</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Elias_L%C3%B6nnrot" title="Elias Lönnrot">Elias Lönnrot</a> (1849 <a href="/wiki/Finnish_mythology" title="Finnish mythology">Finnish mythology</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/I-Juca-Pirama" title="I-Juca-Pirama">I-Juca-Pirama</a></i> (1851) by <a href="/wiki/Gon%C3%A7alves_Dias" title="Gonçalves Dias">Gonçalves Dias</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Kalevipoeg" title="Kalevipoeg">Kalevipoeg</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Reinhold_Kreutzwald" title="Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald">Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald</a> (1853; <a href="/wiki/Estonian_mythology" title="Estonian mythology">Estonian mythology</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Prelude" title="The Prelude">The Prelude</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/William_Wordsworth" title="William Wordsworth">William Wordsworth</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Song_of_Myself" title="Song of Myself">Song of Myself</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Walt_Whitman" title="Walt Whitman">Walt Whitman</a> (1855)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Song_of_Hiawatha" title="The Song of Hiawatha">The Song of Hiawatha</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow" title="Henry Wadsworth Longfellow">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</a> (1855)</li> <li><i>A Confederação dos Tamoios</i> by <a href="/wiki/Gon%C3%A7alves_de_Magalh%C3%A3es,_Viscount_of_Araguaia" title="Gonçalves de Magalhães, Viscount of Araguaia">Gonçalves de Magalhães</a> (1856)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Saga_of_King_Olaf" title="The Saga of King Olaf">The Saga of King Olaf</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow" title="Henry Wadsworth Longfellow">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</a> (1856–1863)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Aurora_Leigh" title="Aurora Leigh">Aurora Leigh</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Barrett_Browning" title="Elizabeth Barrett Browning">Elizabeth Barrett Browning</a> (1857)</li> <li><i>Os Timbiras</i> by <a href="/wiki/Gon%C3%A7alves_Dias" title="Gonçalves Dias">Gonçalves Dias</a> (1857)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Meghnad_Badh_Kavya" title="Meghnad Badh Kavya">Meghnad Badh Kavya</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Michael_Madhusudan_Dutta" class="mw-redirect" title="Michael Madhusudan Dutta">Michael Madhusudan Dutta</a> (1861)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Terje_Vigen" title="Terje Vigen">Terje Vigen</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Henrik_Ibsen" title="Henrik Ibsen">Henrik Ibsen</a> (1862)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/La_L%C3%A9gende_des_si%C3%A8cles" title="La Légende des siècles">La Légende des siècles</a></i> (<i>The Legend of the Centuries</i>) by <a href="/wiki/Victor_Hugo" title="Victor Hugo">Victor Hugo</a> (1859–1877)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Earthly_Paradise" title="The Earthly Paradise">The Earthly Paradise</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/William_Morris" title="William Morris">William Morris</a> (1868–1870)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ibonia" title="Ibonia">Ibonia</a></i>, oral epic of Madagascar (first transcription: 1870)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mart%C3%ADn_Fierro" title="Martín Fierro">Martín Fierro</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Hern%C3%A1ndez_(writer)" title="José Hernández (writer)">José Hernández</a> (1872)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Idylls_of_the_King" title="Idylls of the King">Idylls of the King</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson" title="Alfred, Lord Tennyson">Alfred Tennyson</a> (c. 1874)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Clarel" title="Clarel">Clarel</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Herman_Melville" title="Herman Melville">Herman Melville</a> (1876)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Story_of_Sigurd_the_Volsung_and_the_Fall_of_the_Niblungs" title="The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs">The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/William_Morris" title="William Morris">William Morris</a> (1876)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/L%27Atl%C3%A0ntida" title="L'Atlàntida">L'Atlàntida</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Jacint_Verdaguer" title="Jacint Verdaguer">Jacint Verdaguer</a> (1877)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Light_of_Asia" title="The Light of Asia">The Light of Asia</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Edwin_Arnold" title="Edwin Arnold">Edwin Arnold</a> (1879)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_City_of_Dreadful_Night" title="The City of Dreadful Night">The City of Dreadful Night</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/James_Thomson_(poet,_born_1834)" title="James Thomson (poet, born 1834)">Bysshe Vanolis</a> (finished in 1874, published in 1880)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tristram_of_Lyonesse" title="Tristram of Lyonesse">Tristram of Lyonesse</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Algernon_Charles_Swinburne" title="Algernon Charles Swinburne">Algernon Charles Swinburne</a> (1882)</li> <li><i>The Rape of Florida</i> by <a href="/wiki/Albery_Allson_Whitman" title="Albery Allson Whitman">Albery Allson Whitman</a> (1884 later republished as <i>Twasinta's Seminoles</i>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Eros_and_Psyche_(Robert_Bridges)" title="Eros and Psyche (Robert Bridges)">Eros and Psyche</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Robert_Bridges" title="Robert Bridges">Robert Bridges</a> (1885)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/La_Fin_de_Satan" title="La Fin de Satan">La Fin de Satan</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Victor_Hugo" title="Victor Hugo">Victor Hugo</a> (written between 1855 and 1860, published in 1886)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Canig%C3%B3#Literature" title="Canigó">Canigó</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Jacint_Verdaguer" title="Jacint Verdaguer">Jacint Verdaguer</a> (1886)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/L%C4%81%C4%8Dpl%C4%93sis" title="Lāčplēsis">Lāčplēsis</a></i> ('The Bear-Slayer') by <a href="/wiki/Andrejs_Pumpurs" title="Andrejs Pumpurs">Andrejs Pumpurs</a> (1888; Latvian Mythology)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tabar%C3%A9_(poem)" title="Tabaré (poem)">Tabaré</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Juan_Zorrilla_de_San_Mart%C3%ADn" title="Juan Zorrilla de San Martín">Juan Zorrilla de San Martín</a> (1888; national epic of Uruguay)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Wanderings_of_Oisin" title="The Wanderings of Oisin">The Wanderings of Oisin</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/William_Butler_Yeats" class="mw-redirect" title="William Butler Yeats">William Butler Yeats</a> (1889)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Kotan_Utunnai" title="Kotan Utunnai">Kotan Utunnai</a></i>, Ainu epic, recorded in the 1880s, published in 1890</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Host_and_Guest" title="Host and Guest">Host and Guest</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Vazha-Pshavela" title="Vazha-Pshavela">Vazha-Pshavela</a> (1893)</li> <li>The 9th of July 1821 by <a href="/wiki/Vasilis_Michaelides" title="Vasilis Michaelides">Vasilis Michaelides</a> (1893–1895; national epic of Cyprus written in Cypriot Greek)</li> <li><i>The Tale of Balen</i> by <a href="/wiki/Algernon_Charles_Swinburne" title="Algernon Charles Swinburne">Algernon Charles Swinburne</a> (1896)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/L%E1%BB%A5c_V%C3%A2n_Ti%C3%AAn" title="Lục Vân Tiên">Lục Vân Tiên</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_%C4%90%C3%ACnh_Chi%E1%BB%83u" title="Nguyễn Đình Chiểu">Nguyễn Đình Chiểu</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Amir_Arsalan" title="Amir Arsalan">Amir Arsalan</a></i>, narrated by Mohammad Ali Naqib al-Mamalek to the Qajar Shah of Persia</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="20th_century">20th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_epic_poems&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: 20th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Divine_Enchantment" title="The Divine Enchantment">The Divine Enchantment</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/John_Neihardt" title="John Neihardt">John Neihardt</a> (1900)</li> <li><i>An Idyl of the South: An Epic Poem in Two Parts</i> by <a href="/wiki/Albery_Allson_Whitman" title="Albery Allson Whitman">Albery Allson Whitman</a> (1901)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Highland_Lute" title="The Highland Lute">Lahuta e Malcís</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Gjergj_Fishta" title="Gjergj Fishta">Gjergj Fishta</a> (composed 1902–1937)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ural-batyr" title="Ural-batyr">Ural-batyr</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Bashkirs" title="Bashkirs">Bashkirs</a> oral tradition set in the written form by Mukhamedsha Burangulov in 1910)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Ballad_of_the_White_Horse" title="The Ballad of the White Horse">The Ballad of the White Horse</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/G._K._Chesterton" title="G. K. Chesterton">G. K. Chesterton</a> (1911)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mensagem" title="Mensagem">Mensagem</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Fernando_Pessoa" title="Fernando Pessoa">Fernando Pessoa</a> (composed 1913–1934)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Cantos" title="The Cantos">The Cantos</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Ezra_Pound" title="Ezra Pound">Ezra Pound</a> (composed 1915–1969)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dorvyzhy" title="Dorvyzhy">Dorvyzhy</a></i>, Udmurt national epic compiled in Russian by Mikhail Khudiakov (1920) basing on folklore works</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Legend_of_Sigurd_and_Gudr%C3%BAn" title="The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún">The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien" title="J. R. R. Tolkien">J. R. R. Tolkien</a> (composed 1920–1939, published 2009)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Cycle_of_the_West" title="Cycle of the West">A Cycle of the West</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/John_Neihardt" title="John Neihardt">John Neihardt</a> (composed 1921–1949)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Odyssey:_A_Modern_Sequel" title="The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel">The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Nikos_Kazantzakis" title="Nikos Kazantzakis">Nikos Kazantzakis</a> (Greek verse, composed 1924–1938)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dymer_(poem)" title="Dymer (poem)">Dymer</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/C._S._Lewis" title="C. S. Lewis">C. S. Lewis</a> (1926)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Louis_Zukofsky#.22A.22" title="Louis Zukofsky">"A"</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Louis_Zukofsky" title="Louis Zukofsky">Louis Zukofsky</a> (composed 1927–1978)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/John_Brown%27s_Body_(poem)" title="John Brown's Body (poem)">John Brown's Body</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Vincent_Ben%C3%A9t" title="Stephen Vincent Benét">Stephen Vincent Benét</a> (1928)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Fall_of_Arthur" title="The Fall of Arthur">The Fall of Arthur</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien" title="J. R. R. Tolkien">J. R. R. Tolkien</a> (composed <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1930</span>–1934, published 2013)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Bridge_(long_poem)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Bridge (long poem)">The Bridge</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Hart_Crane" title="Hart Crane">Hart Crane</a> (1930)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ariadne_(poem)" title="Ariadne (poem)">Ariadne</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/F._L._Lucas" title="F. L. Lucas">F. L. Lucas</a> (1932)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Kamayani" title="Kamayani">Kamayani</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Jaishankar_Prasad" title="Jaishankar Prasad">Jaishankar Prasad</a> (1936)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_People,_Yes" title="The People, Yes">The People, Yes</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Carl_Sandburg" title="Carl Sandburg">Carl Sandburg</a> (1936)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/In_Parenthesis" title="In Parenthesis">In Parenthesis</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/David_Jones_(artist-poet)" class="mw-redirect" title="David Jones (artist-poet)">David Jones</a> (1937)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Canto_General" title="Canto General">Canto General</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Pablo_Neruda" title="Pablo Neruda">Pablo Neruda</a> (1938–1950)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Khamba_Thoibi_Sheireng" title="Khamba Thoibi Sheireng">Khamba Thoibi Sheireng</a></i> (based on <a href="/wiki/Khamba_and_Thoibi" title="Khamba and Thoibi">Khamba and Thoibi</a>) by Hijam Anganghal (1940)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Paterson_(poem)" title="Paterson (poem)">Paterson</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/William_Carlos_Williams" title="William Carlos Williams">William Carlos Williams</a> (composed <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1940</span>–1961)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sugata_Saurabha_(epic)" title="Sugata Saurabha (epic)">Sugata Saurabha</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Chittadhar_Hridaya" title="Chittadhar Hridaya">Chittadhar Hridaya</a> (1941–1945)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Victory_for_the_Slain" title="Victory for the Slain">Victory for the Slain</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Hugh_John_Lofting" class="mw-redirect" title="Hugh John Lofting">Hugh John Lofting</a> (1942)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Great_South_Land:_An_Epic_Poem" title="The Great South Land: An Epic Poem">The Great South Land: An Epic Poem</a></i> (1951) by <a href="/wiki/Rex_Ingamells" title="Rex Ingamells">Rex Ingamells</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rashmirathi" title="Rashmirathi">Rashmirathi</a></i> (1952), <i><a href="/wiki/Hunkar_(epic_poem)" title="Hunkar (epic poem)">Hunkar</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Ramdhari_Singh_Dinkar" title="Ramdhari Singh Dinkar">Ramdhari Singh Dinkar</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Savitri:_A_Legend_and_a_Symbol" title="Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol">Savitri</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Aurobindo_Ghose" class="mw-redirect" title="Aurobindo Ghose">Aurobindo Ghose</a> (1950)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Charles_Olson#The_Maximus_Poems" title="Charles Olson">The Maximus Poems</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Charles_Olson" title="Charles Olson">Charles Olson</a> (composed 1950–1970)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Anathemata" title="The Anathemata">The Anathemata</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/David_Jones_(artist-poet)" class="mw-redirect" title="David Jones (artist-poet)">David Jones</a> (1952)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Aniara" title="Aniara">Aniara</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Harry_Martinson" title="Harry Martinson">Harry Martinson</a> (composed 1956)</li> <li><i>Helen in Egypt</i> by <a href="/wiki/H.D." title="H.D.">H.D.</a> (1961)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Song_of_Lawino" title="Song of Lawino">Song of Lawino</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Okot_p%27Bitek" title="Okot p'Bitek">Okot p'Bitek</a> (1966)</li> <li><i>Puerto Rican Obituary</i> by <a href="/wiki/Pedro_Pietri" title="Pedro Pietri">Pedro Pietri</a> (1971)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Prussian_Nights" title="Prussian Nights">Prussian Nights</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Solzhenitsyn" class="mw-redirect" title="Alexander Solzhenitsyn">Alexander Solzhenitsyn</a> (1974)<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Banner_of_Joan" title="The Banner of Joan">The Banner of Joan</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/H._Warner_Munn" title="H. Warner Munn">H. Warner Munn</a> (1975)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Kristubhagavatam" title="Kristubhagavatam">Kristubhagavatam</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/P._C._Devassia" title="P. C. Devassia">P. C. Devassia</a> (1976)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Keralodayam_Mahakavyam" title="Keralodayam Mahakavyam">Keralodayam Mahakavyam</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/K._N._Ezhuthachan" title="K. N. Ezhuthachan">K. N. Ezhuthachan</a> (1977)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Changing_Light_at_Sandover" title="The Changing Light at Sandover">The Changing Light at Sandover</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/James_Merrill" title="James Merrill">James Merrill</a> (composed 1976–1982)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Battlefield_Where_The_Moon_Says_I_Love_You" title="The Battlefield Where The Moon Says I Love You">The Battlefield Where The Moon Says I Love You</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Frank_Stanford" title="Frank Stanford">Frank Stanford</a> (published 1977)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Emperor_Shaka_the_Great" title="Emperor Shaka the Great">Emperor Shaka the Great</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Mazisi_Kunene" title="Mazisi Kunene">Mazisi Kunene</a> (1979)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Lay_of_the_Children_of_H%C3%BArin" class="mw-redirect" title="The Lay of the Children of Húrin">The Lay of the Children of Húrin</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Lay_of_Leithian" class="mw-redirect" title="The Lay of Leithian">The Lay of Leithian</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien" title="J. R. R. Tolkien">J. R. R. Tolkien</a> (published 1985)</li> <li><i>The New World</i> by <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Turner_(poet)" title="Frederick Turner (poet)">Frederick Turner</a> (1985)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Braschi%27s_Empire_of_Dreams" class="mw-redirect" title="Braschi's Empire of Dreams">Empire of Dreams</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Giannina_Braschi" title="Giannina Braschi">Giannina Braschi</a> (1988)<sup id="cite_ref-:0_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Omeros" title="Omeros">Omeros</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Derek_Walcott" title="Derek Walcott">Derek Walcott</a> (1990)</li> <li><i>Genesis</i> by <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Turner_(poet)" title="Frederick Turner (poet)">Frederick Turner</a> (1990)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Arundhati_(epic)" title="Arundhati (epic)">Arundhati</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Jagadguru_Rambhadracharya" class="mw-redirect" title="Jagadguru Rambhadracharya">Jagadguru Rambhadracharya</a> (1994)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mastorava" title="Mastorava">Mastorava</a></i> by A. M. Sharonov (1994)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Astronautilia" title="Astronautilia">Astronautilía Hvězdoplavba</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Jan_K%C5%99esadlo" title="Jan Křesadlo">Jan Křesadlo</a> (1995)</li> <li><i>The Descent of Alette</i> by <a href="/wiki/Alice_Notley" title="Alice Notley">Alice Notley</a> (1996)</li> <li><i>The Alamo: An Epic</i> by <a href="/wiki/Michael_Lind" title="Michael Lind">Michael Lind</a> (1997)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Autobiography_of_Red" title="Autobiography of Red">Autobiography of Red</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Anne_Carson" title="Anne Carson">Anne Carson</a> (1998)<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Fredy_Neptune" title="Fredy Neptune">Fredy Neptune: A Novel in Verse</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Les_Murray_(poet)" title="Les Murray (poet)">Les Murray</a> (1998)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="21st_century">21st century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_epic_poems&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: 21st century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Sribhargavaraghaviyam" class="mw-redirect" title="Sribhargavaraghaviyam">Sribhargavaraghaviyam</a></i> (2002), <i><a href="/wiki/Ashtavakra_(epic)" title="Ashtavakra (epic)">Ashtavakra</a></i> (2009) and <i><a href="/wiki/Gitaramayanam" title="Gitaramayanam">Gitaramayanam</a></i> (2009–2010, published in 2011) by <a href="/wiki/Jagadguru_Rambhadracharya" class="mw-redirect" title="Jagadguru Rambhadracharya">Jagadguru Rambhadracharya</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Solaris_korrigert" title="Solaris korrigert">Solaris korrigert</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/%C3%98yvind_Rimbereid" title="Øyvind Rimbereid">Øyvind Rimbereid</a> (2004)</li> <li><i>Lime Stone: An <a href="/wiki/Epic_poetry" title="Epic poetry">Epic Poem</a> of Barbados</i> (2008) by <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Kellman" title="Anthony Kellman">Anthony Kellman</a><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Zorgamazoo" title="Zorgamazoo">Zorgamazoo</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Robert_Paul_Weston" title="Robert Paul Weston">Robert Paul Weston</a> (2008)</li> <li><i>The Iovis Trilogy</i> by <a href="/wiki/Anne_Waldman" title="Anne Waldman">Anne Waldman</a> (2011)<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Our Lady of the Ruins</i> by <a href="/wiki/Traci_Brimhall" title="Traci Brimhall">Traci Brimhall</a> (2012)<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Brand New Ancients</i> by <a href="/wiki/Kae_Tempest" title="Kae Tempest">Kae Tempest</a> (2013)<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Apocalypse</i> by <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Turner_(poet)" title="Frederick Turner (poet)">Frederick Turner</a> (2016)</li> <li><i>Vrata nepovrata</i> by <a href="/wiki/Boris_A._Novak" title="Boris A. Novak">Boris A. Novak</a> (2014-2017)</li> <li><i>Epoch: A Poetic Psy-Phi Saga</i> by Dave Jilk (2024)<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_epics">Other epics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_epic_poems&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Other epics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cana%C3%A4d&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Canaäd (page does not exist)">Canaäd</a></i>, an epic poem reconstructing Canaanite mythology, set during the Late Bronze Age.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Epic_of_Bamana_Segu" title="Epic of Bamana Segu">Epic of Bamana Segu</a></i>, oral epic of the <a href="/wiki/Bambara_people" title="Bambara people">Bambara people</a>, composed in the 19th century and recorded in the 20th century</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Epic_of_Darkness" title="Epic of Darkness">Epic of Darkness</a></i>, tales and legends of primeval China</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Epic_of_Jangar" title="Epic of Jangar">Epic of Jangar</a></i>, poem of the <a href="/wiki/Oirat_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Oirat people">Oirat people</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Epic_of_K%C3%B6ro%C4%9Flu" class="mw-redirect" title="Epic of Köroğlu">Epic of Köroğlu</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Turkic_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Turkic people">Turkic</a> oral tradition written down mostly in 18th century</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Epic_of_Manas" title="Epic of Manas">Epic of Manas</a></i> (18th century)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Epic_of_the_Forgotten" title="Epic of the Forgotten">Epic of the Forgotten</a></i>, Bulgarian poetic saga</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gesta_Berengarii_imperatoris" title="Gesta Berengarii imperatoris">Gesta Berengarii imperatoris</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Heavensfield&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Heavensfield (page does not exist)">Heavensfield</a></i>, alliterative epic on the life of medieval king Oswald of Northumbria.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hikayat_Seri_Rama" title="Hikayat Seri Rama">Hikayat Seri Rama</a></i>, Malay version of the Ramayana</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hinilawod" title="Hinilawod">Hinilawod</a></i>, Filipino epic from the island of <a href="/wiki/Panay" title="Panay">Panay</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hotsuma_Tsutae" title="Hotsuma Tsutae">Hotsuma Tsutae</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Khun_Chang_Khun_Phaen" title="Khun Chang Khun Phaen">Khun Chang Khun Phaen</a></i>, a Thai poem</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Klei_Khan_Y_Dam_San" class="mw-redirect" title="Klei Khan Y Dam San">Klei Khan Y Dam San</a></i>, a Vietnamese poem</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Koti_and_Chennayya" title="Koti and Chennayya">Koti and Chennayya</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Epic_of_Siri" title="Epic of Siri">Epic of Siri</a></i>, Tulu poems</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Kutune_Shirka" title="Kutune Shirka">Kutune Shirka</a></i>, sacred <a href="/wiki/Yukar" title="Yukar">yukar</a> epic of the <a href="/wiki/Ainu_people" title="Ainu people">Ainu people</a> of which several translations exist</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lay_of_Mouse-fate_(Musurdvitha)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lay of Mouse-fate (Musurdvitha) (page does not exist)">Lay of Mouse-fate (Musurdvitha)</a></i>, a fantasy epic inspired by animal fable and Arthurian legend.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mu%27allaqat" title="Mu'allaqat">Mu'allaqat</a></i>, Arabic poems written by seven poets in <a href="/wiki/Classical_Arabic" title="Classical Arabic">Classical Arabic</a>, these poems are very similar to epic poems and specially the poem of <a href="/wiki/Antarah_ibn_Shaddad" title="Antarah ibn Shaddad">Antarah ibn Shaddad</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Parsifal" title="Parsifal">Parsifal</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Richard_Wagner" title="Richard Wagner">Richard Wagner</a> (opera, composed 1880–1882)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pasyon" title="Pasyon">Pasyón</a></i>, Filipino religious epic, of which the 1703 and 1814 versions are popular</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Popol_Vuh" title="Popol Vuh">Popol Vuh</a></i>, history of the K'iche' people</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ramakien" title="Ramakien">Ramakien</a></i>, Thailand's national epic derived from the <a href="/wiki/Ramayana" title="Ramayana">Ramayana</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Der_Ring_des_Nibelungen" title="Der Ring des Nibelungen">Der Ring des Nibelungen</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Richard_Wagner" title="Richard Wagner">Richard Wagner</a> (opera, composed 1848–1874)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Siribhoovalaya" title="Siribhoovalaya">Siribhoovalaya</a></i>, a unique work of multi-lingual <a href="/wiki/Kannada_literature" title="Kannada literature">literature</a> written by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Kumudendu_Muni&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kumudendu Muni (page does not exist)">Kumudendu Muni</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Jainism" title="Jainism">Jain</a> monk</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Yadegar-e_Zariran" class="mw-redirect" title="Yadegar-e Zariran">Yadegar-e Zariran</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Middle_Persian" title="Middle Persian">Middle Persian</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Yama_Zatdaw" title="Yama Zatdaw">Yama Zatdaw</a></i>, Burmese version of the Ramayana</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_epic_poems&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">According to that article, world folk epics are those that are not just literary <a href="/wiki/Masterpiece" title="Masterpiece">masterpieces</a>, but also an integral part of the <a href="/wiki/World_view" class="mw-redirect" title="World view">world view</a> of a people, originally oral, later written down by one or several authors.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Fallon, Oliver. 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