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Epic Poetry Books
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The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 294 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,210,452 ratings — published -800
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 246 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.93 — 516,581 ratings — published -800
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 200 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.50 — 350,021 ratings — published 1000
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 152 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.88 — 145,150 ratings — published -19
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 151 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.86 — 184,423 ratings — published 1667
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.76 — 120,694 ratings — published -1200
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 4.09 — 174,827 ratings — published 1320
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 90 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 4.03 — 208,617 ratings — published 1321
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 4.10 — 79,179 ratings — published 8
The Song of Roland (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.50 — 19,468 ratings — published 1115
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.76 — 78,745 ratings — published 1375
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 2: Purgatorio (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 4.05 — 30,508 ratings — published 1321
The Nibelungenlied (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.82 — 9,027 ratings — published 1200
Paradise (The Divine Comedy, #3)
by (shelved 32 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.96 — 22,069 ratings — published 1321
The Kalevala (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,171 ratings — published 1835
Jason and the Golden Fleece (The Argonautica)
by (shelved 25 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.82 — 11,551 ratings — published -250
The Faerie Queene (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.59 — 17,402 ratings — published 1590
The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 4.26 — 12,661 ratings — published 1270
The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.53 — 239,263 ratings — published 1400
Poema de Mío Cid (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.45 — 16,036 ratings — published 1110
The Bhagavad Gita (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 4.19 — 82,620 ratings — published -400
The Táin: From the Irish Epic Táin Bó Cúailnge (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,113 ratings — published 750
Don Juan (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.78 — 8,990 ratings — published 1819
The Lusiads (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.98 — 9,536 ratings — published 1572
The Iliad / The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 4.07 — 84,686 ratings — published -800
Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, together with Sellic Spell (ebook)
by (shelved 14 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.90 — 11,638 ratings — published 2014
Orlando Furioso (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,170 ratings — published 1516
The Way Things Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.97 — 14,701 ratings — published -55
Paradise Regained (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.69 — 3,648 ratings — published 1671
Theogony / Works and Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.76 — 16,744 ratings — published -700
Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 4.07 — 8,008 ratings — published 1667
The Saga of the Volsungs (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,047 ratings — published 1000
Civil War (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,660 ratings — published 61
Mahabharata (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 4.32 — 12,251 ratings — published 300
The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 4.07 — 13,323 ratings — published 1957
Omeros (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,349 ratings — published 1990
Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 4.52 — 5,736 ratings — published 1010
Jerusalem Delivered (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,866 ratings — published 1581
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.98 — 15,189 ratings — published 1975
Paradise Lost and Other Poems (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.99 — 878 ratings — published 1674
The Works and Days / Theogony / The Shield of Herakles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,694 ratings — published -700
Idylls of the King (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.97 — 10,481 ratings — published 1885
The Cantos (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.92 — 5,424 ratings — published 1970
Theogony and Works and Days / Elegies (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.64 — 950 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 3.92 — 39,672 ratings — published 1485
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,349 ratings — published 1812
Faust (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.89 — 51,570 ratings — published 1808
Autobiography of Red (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 4.25 — 37,165 ratings — published 1998
The Rape of the Lock (Wildside Classic)
by (shelved 6 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.54 — 17,376 ratings — published 1717
“Slaying demons is a warrior’s claim,
Until a demon tells its tales,
Though a warrior sees the stakes,
A demon’s heart he must take.”
― Renegades And Other Soulful Poems
Until a demon tells its tales,
Though a warrior sees the stakes,
A demon’s heart he must take.”
― Renegades And Other Soulful Poems
“A Ravaging Sentinel's Vow by Stewart Stafford
State your love for me now —
Agreed, a cracked heart pledge,
Defying your many flaws,
martyring me to betrayal's dredge.
At your darkest dawn —
My fealty oath holds true,
when every back is turned,
a redeeming ravager’s purview.
A sentinel’s dust trail climbs high,
hooves thunder; the sundial stops,
A vow declared, enemies routed,
disaster reined on teetering clifftops.
© 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
―
State your love for me now —
Agreed, a cracked heart pledge,
Defying your many flaws,
martyring me to betrayal's dredge.
At your darkest dawn —
My fealty oath holds true,
when every back is turned,
a redeeming ravager’s purview.
A sentinel’s dust trail climbs high,
hooves thunder; the sundial stops,
A vow declared, enemies routed,
disaster reined on teetering clifftops.
© 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
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