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24 titles for readers of Paradise Lost by John Milton, selected for shared themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Epic, European, and Classics.

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Beowulf A Verse Translation

Michael Alexander

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Epic • European

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

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

J. R. R. Tolkien

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Epic • European

Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained — John Milton

Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Epic • European

The Time Machine — H. G. Wells

The Time Machine

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Epic • European

The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún — John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Epic • European

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: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Epic • European

The Atlas of Middle-earth — Karen Wynn Fonstad

The Atlas of Middle-earth

Karen Wynn Fonstad

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Epic • European

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight — Simon Armitage

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Epic • European

The Waste Land — T. S. Eliot

The Waste Land — T. S. Eliot

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Epic • European

The Broken Word An Epic Poem of the British Empire in Kenya, and the Mau Mau Uprising Against It — Adam Foulds

The Broken Word An Epic Poem of the British Empire in Kenya, and the Mau Mau Uprising Against It

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Epic • European

The Complete Poems of John Keats — John Keats

The Complete Poems of John Keats

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Epic • European

The Canterbury Tales — Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Epic • European

Don Juan — George Gordon Byron

George Gordon Byron

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Epic • European

B After Dante — Ned Denny

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Epic • European

The Masque of Anarchy – a Poem — Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Masque of Anarchy – a Poem — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe. Shelley

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Epic • European

The Ballad of the White Horse — G. K. Chesterton

The Ballad of the White Horse

G. K. Chesterton

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Epic • European

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: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Epic • European

The Waste Land and Other Writings — T.S. Eliot

The Waste Land and Other Writings

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Epic • European

Marmion A Tale of Flodden Field — Scott Walter Sir

Marmion A Tale of Flodden Field

Scott Walter Sir

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Epic • European

Selected Canterbury Tales — Geoffrey Chaucer

Selected Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Epic • European

Beowulf A Prose Translation — Anonymous

Beowulf A Prose Translation

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Epic • European

Beowulf — Meghan Purvis

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Epic • European

From Virgil to Milton — C. M. (Cecil Maurice) Bowra

From Virgil to Milton

C. M. (Cecil Maurice) Bowra

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Epic • European

Beowulf An Illustrated Edition — John D Niles

Beowulf An Illustrated Edition

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Epic • European

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