Epic Poetry & Myth 1-20
19 entries in the Epic Poetry & Myth compendium.
Odes (Horace)Four books of Latin lyric poems by Horace, emulated for their form and style.Orlando FuriosoItalian epic poem of chivalry, madness, and love.Os LusíadasPortuguese epic poem celebrating Vasco da Gama's voyage to India.ParzivalMedieval romance of Parzival's quest for the Holy Grail.PharsaliaRoman epic poem on Caesar's civil war.Piers PlowmanMiddle English allegorical poem by William Langland.Poetic EddaAnonymous Old Norse poems preserved in the Codex Regius manuscript.PurgatorioSecond part of Dante's Divine Comedy, allegory of penitent Christian life.Roman de la RoseMedieval allegorical poem on the art of romantic love.Rubaiyat of Omar KhayyamTranslation of Persian quatrains that became a Victorian cult classic.Secret History of the MongolsOldest surviving literary work in the Mongolic languages.Sir Gawain and the Green KnightA late 14th-century Arthurian romance combining beheading game and exchange of winnings.Sirat Bani HilalAn Arabic oral epic recounting the Banu Hilal's journey to North Africa.Njáls sagaThirteenth-century Icelandic saga of blood feuds and honor.O Captain! My Captain!Extended metaphor poem on Lincoln's death, Whitman's most popular.Shakespeare's sonnets154 sonnets first published together in a 1609 quarto.Sonnet 18Shakespeare's sonnet comparing a youth to a summer's day.Sonnet 20A sonnet comparing the beloved's beauty to both genders.Sonnets to OrpheusA 55-sonnet cycle written in a three-week creative storm.
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