[{"n": "Odes (Horace)", "u": "/e/epic-poetry-and-myth/odes-horace/", "s": "Four books of Latin lyric poems by Horace, emulated for their form and style."}, {"n": "Orlando Furioso", "u": "/e/epic-poetry-and-myth/orlando-furioso/", "s": "An Italian epic of chivalry, madness, and love, continuing Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato."}, {"n": "Os Lusíadas", "u": "/e/epic-poetry-and-myth/os-lus-adas/", "s": "Portugal's national epic celebrating Vasco da Gama's voyage to India."}, {"n": "Parzival", "u": "/e/epic-poetry-and-myth/parzival/", "s": "Medieval romance of Parzival's quest for the Holy Grail."}, {"n": "Pharsalia", "u": "/e/epic-poetry-and-myth/pharsalia/", "s": "Lucan's unfinished epic of Roman civil war."}, {"n": "Piers Plowman", "u": "/e/epic-poetry-and-myth/piers-plowman/", "s": "Middle English allegorical poem by William Langland."}, {"n": "Poetic Edda", "u": "/e/epic-poetry-and-myth/poetic-edda/", "s": "Anonymous Old Norse poems preserved in the Codex Regius manuscript."}, {"n": "Purgatorio", "u": "/e/epic-poetry-and-myth/purgatorio/", "s": "The second part of Dante's Divine Comedy, depicting the climb of Mount Purgatory."}, {"n": "Roman de la Rose", "u": "/e/epic-poetry-and-myth/roman-de-la-rose/", "s": "Medieval allegorical poem on the art of romantic love."}, {"n": "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam", "u": "/e/epic-poetry-and-myth/rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam/", "s": "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: FitzGerald's 1859 translation that sparked a cult."}, {"n": "Secret History of the Mongols", "u": "/e/epic-poetry-and-myth/secret-history-of-the-mongols/", "s": "The oldest surviving literary work in the Mongolic languages, recounting the life and conquests of Genghis Kha"}, {"n": "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", "u": "/e/epic-poetry-and-myth/sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight/", "s": "A late 14th-century Arthurian romance combining beheading game and exchange of winnings."}, {"n": "Sirat Bani Hilal", "u": "/e/epic-poetry-and-myth/sirat-bani-hilal/", "s": "The only Arab oral epic still performed in its integral musical form, recounting the Banu Hilal's journey from"}, {"n": "Njáls saga", "u": "/e/epic-poetry-and-myth/nj-ls-saga/", "s": "The longest and most highly developed of the sagas of Icelanders, often considered the peak of the saga tradit"}, {"n": "O Captain! My Captain!", "u": "/e/epic-poetry-and-myth/o-captain-my-captain/", "s": "Extended metaphor poem on Lincoln's death, Whitman's most popular."}, {"n": "Shakespeare's sonnets", "u": "/e/epic-poetry-and-myth/shakespeare-s-sonnets/", "s": "154 sonnets, five in plays, and a partial sonnet in Edward III."}, {"n": "Sonnet 18", "u": "/e/epic-poetry-and-myth/sonnet-18/", "s": "Shakespeare's sonnet comparing a youth to a summer's day."}, {"n": "Sonnet 20", "u": "/e/epic-poetry-and-myth/sonnet-20/", "s": "A sonnet comparing the beloved's beauty to both genders."}, {"n": "Sonnets to Orpheus", "u": "/e/epic-poetry-and-myth/sonnets-to-orpheus/", "s": "A 55-sonnet cycle written in a three-week creative storm."}, {"n": "Divine Comedy", "u": "/e/epic-poetry-and-myth/divine-comedy/", "s": "An allegorical journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven."}, {"n": "Entrée d'Espagne", "u": "/e/epic-poetry-and-myth/entr-e-d-espagne/", "s": "A Franco-Venetian epic transforming Roland into a knight errant."}, {"n": "La Spagna", "u": "/e/epic-poetry-and-myth/la-spagna/", "s": "A 14th-century Italian epic of Charlemagne and Orlando."}, {"n": "Morgante", "u": "/e/epic-poetry-and-myth/morgante/", "s": "Italian romantic epic about a giant who follows Orlando."}]