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The Metamorphoses — Ovid

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Willehalm — Wolfram von Eschenbach

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo — J. R. R. Tolkien

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo

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The Epic of Gilgamesh — ANDREW GEORGE

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Jason and the Argonauts

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Shahnameh The Persian Book of Kings

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Epic • Classics

The Odyssey — Homer

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Epic • Classics

Beowulf A Verse Translation — Michael Alexander

Beowulf A Verse Translation

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Themes: Ancient & Classical • Epic • Classics

Civil War — Lucan

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Epic • Poetry

The Battle of Maldon Together with The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm’s Son and ‘The Tradition of Versification in Old English’ — J. R. R. Tolkien

The Battle of Maldon Together with The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm’s Son and ‘The Tradition of Versification in Old English&#8217

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Beowulf A New Feminist Translation of the Epic Poem — Maria Dahvana Headley

Beowulf A New Feminist Translation of the Epic Poem

Maria Dahvana Headley

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Epic • Poetry

The Elder Edda — Anonymous

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Epic • Poetry

Works and Days — Hesiod

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Epic • Poetry

Paradise Lost — John Milton

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Epic • Poetry

Hesiod and Theognis Theogony, Works and Days, and Elegies — Hesiod

Hesiod and Theognis Theogony, Works and Days, and Elegies

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Epic • Poetry

Robert Pollok’s The Course of Time and Literary Theodicy in the Romantic Age The Rise and Fall of a Christian Epic — Deryl Davis

Robert Pollok’s The Course of Time and Literary Theodicy in the Romantic Age The Rise and Fall of a Christian Epic

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Epic • Poetry

Gilgamesh A New Rendering in English Verse — David Ferry

Gilgamesh A New Rendering in English Verse

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Epic • Poetry

Don Juan — Lord Byron

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Epic • Poetry

The Waste Land — Thomas Stearns Eliot

Thomas Stearns Eliot

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Epic • Poetry

Homer, the Iliad — Walter Leaf

Homer, the Iliad

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Epic • Poetry

The Divine Comedy Volume 1: Hell — Dante Alighieri

The Divine Comedy Volume 1: Hell

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Meghaduta — Mahakabi Kalidasa

Mahakabi Kalidasa

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Pub. Ovidii Nasonis Epistolarum heroidum liber: interpretatione & notis illustravit Daniel Crispinus, Helvetuis; … ad usum serenissimi Delphini. … (Latin Edition)

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