Category
page 1Mock-heroic poems
Metamorphoses
thumb|Title page of 1556 edition published by Joannes Gryphius (decorative border added subsequently). Hayden White Rare Book Collection, University of California, Santa Cruz.
Reynard the Fox
cycle of Old French fables
mock-heroic poem
Mock-heroic, mock-epic or heroi-comic works are typically satires or parodies that mock the elevated style of common Classical stereotypes of heroes and heroic literature. Typically, mock-heroic works either put a fool in the role of the hero or exaggerate the heroic qualities in relation to a trivial subject.

Ysengrimus
upright=1.35|thumb|Ysengrimus, from a 12th-century MS in the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

The Maid of Orleans
poem by Voltaire

La secchia rapita
poem by Alessandro Tassoni

Aeneid Inside Out
book by Vikencij Ravinski