Epic Poetry & Myth
23 entries in the Epic Poetry & Myth compendium.
Odes (Horace)Four books of Latin lyric poems by Horace, emulated for their form and style.Orlando FuriosoAn Italian epic of chivalry, madness, and love, continuing Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato.Os LusíadasPortugal's national epic celebrating Vasco da Gama's voyage to India.ParzivalMedieval romance of Parzival's quest for the Holy Grail.PharsaliaLucan's unfinished epic of Roman civil war.Piers PlowmanMiddle English allegorical poem by William Langland.Poetic EddaAnonymous Old Norse poems preserved in the Codex Regius manuscript.PurgatorioThe second part of Dante's Divine Comedy, depicting the climb of Mount Purgatory.Roman de la RoseMedieval allegorical poem on the art of romantic love.Rubaiyat of Omar KhayyamThe Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: FitzGerald's 1859 translation that sparked a cult.Secret History of the MongolsThe oldest surviving literary work in the Mongolic languages, recounting the life and conquests of Genghis…Sir Gawain and the Green KnightA late 14th-century Arthurian romance combining beheading game and exchange of winnings.Sirat Bani HilalThe only Arab oral epic still performed in its integral musical form, recounting the Banu Hilal's journey…Njáls sagaThe longest and most highly developed of the sagas of Icelanders, often considered the peak of the saga…O Captain! My Captain!Extended metaphor poem on Lincoln's death, Whitman's most popular.Shakespeare's sonnets154 sonnets, five in plays, and a partial sonnet in Edward III.Sonnet 18Shakespeare's sonnet comparing a youth to a summer's day.Sonnet 20A sonnet comparing the beloved's beauty to both genders.Sonnets to OrpheusA 55-sonnet cycle written in a three-week creative storm.Divine ComedyAn allegorical journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven.Entrée d'EspagneA Franco-Venetian epic transforming Roland into a knight errant.La SpagnaA 14th-century Italian epic of Charlemagne and Orlando.MorganteItalian romantic epic about a giant who follows Orlando.
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