[{"n": "The Iliad", "u": "/e/classic-poetry-and-epics/the-iliad/", "s": "Ancient Greek epic poem attributed to Homer, central to classical philology."}, {"n": "The Odyssey", "u": "/e/classic-poetry-and-epics/the-odyssey/", "s": "Ancient Greek epic of Odysseus's perilous homecoming journey."}, {"n": "The Aeneid", "u": "/e/classic-poetry-and-epics/the-aeneid/", "s": "Latin epic poem linking Troy to Rome's founding."}, {"n": "Paradise Lost", "u": "/e/classic-poetry-and-epics/paradise-lost/", "s": "Epic poem on the fall of man."}, {"n": "The Divine Comedy", "u": "/e/classic-poetry-and-epics/the-divine-comedy/", "s": "Three-part poem on the soul's journey through the afterlife."}, {"n": "Beowulf", "u": "/e/classic-poetry-and-epics/beowulf/", "s": "Hero of the Geats who fought Grendel, his mother, and a dragon."}, {"n": "The Epic of Gilgamesh", "u": "/e/classic-poetry-and-epics/the-epic-of-gilgamesh/", "s": "World's oldest surviving narrative literature, from ancient Mesopotamia."}, {"n": "Cantar de mio Cid", "u": "/e/classic-poetry-and-epics/cantar-de-mio-cid/", "s": "Anonymous 12th-century Castilian epic about the exiled hero El Cid."}, {"n": "Chu Ci", "u": "/e/classic-poetry-and-epics/chu-ci/", "s": "Ancient anthology of Chu poetry, central to pre-Qin Chinese verse."}, {"n": "Cædmon's Hymn", "u": "/e/classic-poetry-and-epics/c-dmon-s-hymn/", "s": "Old English poem attributed to a miraculously inspired cow-herder."}, {"n": "Daredevils of Sassoun", "u": "/e/classic-poetry-and-epics/daredevils-of-sassoun/", "s": "Armenian oral epic of four generations of warriors."}, {"n": "De rerum natura", "u": "/e/classic-poetry-and-epics/de-rerum-natura/", "s": "First-century BCE Epicurean poem on atomism and nature."}, {"n": "Divan-i Shams-i Tabrizi", "u": "/e/classic-poetry-and-epics/divan-i-shams-i-tabrizi/", "s": "Rumi's lyric collection dedicated to his spiritual teacher Shams-i Tabrizi."}, {"n": "Do not go gentle into that good night", "u": "/e/classic-poetry-and-epics/do-not-go-gentle-into-that-good-night/", "s": "\"Do not go gentle into that good night\" is a villanelle by the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, who lived from 1914 to"}, {"n": "Duino Elegies", "u": "/e/classic-poetry-and-epics/duino-elegies/", "s": "The Duino Elegies, a cycle of ten poems by Bohemian-Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke, are among the most celeb"}, {"n": "Eclogues", "u": "/e/classic-poetry-and-epics/eclogues/", "s": "Virgil's first major work, blending pastoral song with political turmoil."}, {"n": "Enūma Eliš", "u": "/e/classic-poetry-and-epics/en-ma-eli/", "s": "Babylonian creation myth from the late 2nd millennium BCE."}, {"n": "Epic of King Gesar", "u": "/e/classic-poetry-and-epics/epic-of-king-gesar/", "s": "A living oral epic from Tibet and Central Asia."}, {"n": "Epic of Manas", "u": "/e/classic-poetry-and-epics/epic-of-manas/", "s": "The longest epic poem, central to Kyrgyz oral tradition."}, {"n": "Epic of Sundiata", "u": "/e/classic-poetry-and-epics/epic-of-sundiata/", "s": "Foundational epic of the Mali Empire and Mandé culture."}]