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Epic Poetry Books
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The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 298 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,244,115 ratings — published
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 257 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.94 — 528,159 ratings — published -750
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 202 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.50 — 354,043 ratings — published 1000
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.86 — 186,916 ratings — published 1667
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 154 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.88 — 147,312 ratings — published -19
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.76 — 122,807 ratings — published -1800
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 4.09 — 177,776 ratings — published 1320
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 88 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 4.03 — 211,424 ratings — published 1321
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 4.10 — 80,168 ratings — published 8
The Song of Roland (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.51 — 19,720 ratings — published 1115
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.76 — 81,163 ratings — published 1375
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 2: Purgatorio (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 4.06 — 31,019 ratings — published 1321
The Nibelungenlied (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.82 — 9,138 ratings — published 1200
Paradise (The Divine Comedy, #3)
by (shelved 31 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.96 — 22,409 ratings — published 1321
The Kalevala (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,256 ratings — published 1835
Jason and the Golden Fleece (The Argonautica)
by (shelved 25 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.82 — 11,742 ratings — published -250
The Faerie Queene (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.59 — 17,482 ratings — published 1590
The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 4.26 — 12,831 ratings — published 1270
The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.53 — 240,973 ratings — published 1400
Poema de Mío Cid (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.45 — 16,223 ratings — published 1110
The Táin: From the Irish Epic Táin Bó Cúailnge (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,178 ratings — published 750
The Iliad / The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 4.07 — 85,860 ratings — published -800
Don Juan (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.78 — 9,056 ratings — published 1819
The Bhagavad Gita (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 4.19 — 83,880 ratings — published -400
The Lusiads (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.98 — 9,655 ratings — published 1572
Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, together with Sellic Spell (ebook)
by (shelved 14 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.90 — 11,804 ratings — published 2014
Theogony / Works and Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.76 — 17,019 ratings — published -700
The Way Things Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.97 — 14,858 ratings — published -55
Paradise Regained (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.69 — 3,741 ratings — published 1671
Orlando Furioso (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,229 ratings — published 1516
Mahabharata (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 4.32 — 12,350 ratings — published 300
Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 4.07 — 8,056 ratings — published 1667
The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 4.08 — 12,754 ratings — published 1957
The Saga of the Volsungs (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,116 ratings — published 1000
Idylls of the King (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.97 — 10,564 ratings — published 1885
Omeros (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,401 ratings — published 1990
Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 4.53 — 5,712 ratings — published 1010
Jerusalem Delivered (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,916 ratings — published 1581
Civil War (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,695 ratings — published 61
Paradise Lost and Other Poems (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.99 — 877 ratings — published 1674
The Works and Days / Theogony / The Shield of Herakles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,752 ratings — published -700
The Cantos (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.92 — 5,456 ratings — published 1970
Theogony and Works and Days / Elegies (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.65 — 982 ratings — published -800
Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.91 — 39,966 ratings — published 1485
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.98 — 15,475 ratings — published 1975
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,375 ratings — published 1812
Faust (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.89 — 52,672 ratings — published 1808
Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 4.25 — 38,131 ratings — published 1998
The Fall of Arthur (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.80 — 7,563 ratings — published 2013
“As madcap whitecaps hammered at the hulls,
the bowsprits breasting saw-toothed waves
now high and mighty, now abject, the Sun
looked down and watched the boats—so bantam, meek,
and of no consequence—become engulfed
by stormclouds smothering the sallow sea.
A norther hurled its curses at the fleet
as in return garboards and sheerstrakes groaned
amidst the helter-skelter of loud shouts.
With drenched and veiny arms the tillers clenched
the quarter rudders, trying to prevent
the roaring ocean, frothing at the mouth,
from swallowing the ships they’d sworn to guide
while thinking: Who, in the last instance, can
withstand its infinite, digestive force?
Anon this beast became a lesser cause
for fear, supplanted by the high-pitched shrieks
of something neither man nor animal
that lurked beyond them in the ebon drear,
its contour barely visible by turns
when intermittent bolts transpierced the sky.
(Canaäd, XV 271-91)”
―
the bowsprits breasting saw-toothed waves
now high and mighty, now abject, the Sun
looked down and watched the boats—so bantam, meek,
and of no consequence—become engulfed
by stormclouds smothering the sallow sea.
A norther hurled its curses at the fleet
as in return garboards and sheerstrakes groaned
amidst the helter-skelter of loud shouts.
With drenched and veiny arms the tillers clenched
the quarter rudders, trying to prevent
the roaring ocean, frothing at the mouth,
from swallowing the ships they’d sworn to guide
while thinking: Who, in the last instance, can
withstand its infinite, digestive force?
Anon this beast became a lesser cause
for fear, supplanted by the high-pitched shrieks
of something neither man nor animal
that lurked beyond them in the ebon drear,
its contour barely visible by turns
when intermittent bolts transpierced the sky.
(Canaäd, XV 271-91)”
―
“I live not in myself, but I become
Portion of that around me: and to me
High mountains are a feeling, but the hum
of human cities torture.”
― Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Portion of that around me: and to me
High mountains are a feeling, but the hum
of human cities torture.”
― Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
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