Epic poems in English

epic poem by John Milton

thumb|upright=1.2|Ossian Singing, Nicolai Abildgaard, 1787

English epic poem by Edmund Spenser

satiric poem by Lord Byron

epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

poem by John Milton

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poem by Geoffrey Chaucer

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thumb|Monument to Acadians, [[St. Martinville, Louisiana]] Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie is an epic poem by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, written in English and published in 1847. The poem follows an Acadian girl named Evangeline and her search for her lost love Gabriel during the expulsion of the Acadians (1755–1764).

unfinished poem by John Keats

poem by Walt Whitman

Sri Aurobindo's major poetic work, an epic in blank verse, describing his vision of existence and explores the reason for ignorance, darkness, suffering and pain, the purpose of life on earth and the prospect of a glorious future for humanity.

"Waldere" or "Waldhere" is the conventional title given to two Old English fragments, of around 32 and 31 lines, from a lost epic poem, discovered in 1860 by E. C. Werlauff, Librarian, in the Danish Royal Library at Copenhagen, where it is still preserved. The parchment pages had been reused as stiffening in the binding of an Elizabethan prayer book, which had presumably come to Europe following the Dissolution of the Monasteries in England in the 16th century.

unfinished poem by J. R. R. Tolkien

poem compiled and recast by Layamon

1808 poem by Walter Scott with 1811, 1885, and 1889 reprints

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Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land is an epic poem by American writer Herman Melville, originally published in two volumes in 1876. It is a poetic fiction about a young American man named Clarel, on pilgrimage through the Holy Land with a cluster of companions who question each other as they pass through Biblical sites. Melville uses this situation to explore his own spiritual dilemma, his inability to either accept or reject inherited Christian doctrine in the face of Darwin's challenge, and to represent the general theological crisis in the Victorian era.

Omeros is an epic poem by Saint Lucian writer Derek Walcott, first published in 1990. The work is divided into seven "books" containing a total of sixty-four chapters. Many critics view Omeros as Walcott's finest work.

poem by William Blake

epic novel/poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Gondibert is an epic poem by William Davenant. In it he attempts to combine the five-act structure of English Renaissance drama with the Homeric and Virgilian epic literary tradition. Davenant also sought to incorporate modern philosophical theories about government and passion, based primarily in the work of Thomas Hobbes, to whom Davenant sent drafts of the poem for review.

epic poem by David Jones

poem by Stephen Vincent Benét