Epic

Modernist epic

epic poem

is a French epic historical novel by Victor Hugo

It is a series of six books of poetry that together amount to around 25,000 verses or 50,000 lines

Almost the entire work is made up of 389 fourteen-line stanzas (5,446 lines in all) of iambic tetrameter

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 epic novel by American writer Herman Melville

is an epic poem in blank verse by the English poet John Milton

an epic novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy

Narrative poetry, epic, elegy, tragedy, pastoral

Abu al-Qasim Mansur bin Hasan Tosi (940-1025), better known by his pen name Ferdowsi, was a Persian poet who is notable for being the author of the Shahnameh ("Book of Kings"), which is one of the world's longest epic poems created by a single poet, and the greatest epic of the Persian-speaking countries.

one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India

The famous epic Florante at Laura

Vladimir Braginsky described it as a Malay historical-heroic epic

he wrote his epic poem Der Trompeter von Säkkingen

to celebrate his princely patrons in panegyrics and epics

a long Latin epic on the life of Alexander the Great

Horace spoke of him as a master of epic

is a type of Russian oral epic poem

is a genre of Indian epic poetry in Classical Sanskrit

an epic, from Central Asia

In Icelandic literature, a ríma (IPA: [ˈriːma], literally "a rhyme", pl. rímur, [ˈriːmʏr̥]) is an epic poem written in any of the so-called rímnahættir ([ˈrimnaˌhaihtɪr̥], "rímur meters").

A national epic is an epic poem or a literary work of epic scope which seeks to or is believed to capture and express the essence or spirit of a particular nation-not necessarily a nation state, but at least an ethnic or linguistic group with aspirations to independence or autonomy.

an epic literary genre of works stylized as an oral tale

greatest romantic epic poet in Persian literature

the first Persian mystical epic of Sufism

Genre: Epic poem

Genre: Epic poetry, National epic

Genre: Epic poem

Genre: epic poem

Genre: Epic poem

Genre: Lyric poetry, epic poetry, free verse, prose poetry, parody, satire, utopian fiction

Genre: Elegy, epic, drama

Genre: Epic poetry

Epic poetry

Epic poetry

The Epic of Gilgamesh () is an epic from ancient Mesopotamia that is the world's oldest surviving example of narrative literature.

Beowulf ( ; Old English: Bēowulf [ˈbeːo.wuɫf]) is an Old English poem, an epic in the tradition of Germanic heroic legend consisting of 3,182 alliterative lines, contained in the Nowell Codex.

The Nibelungenlied (German pronunciation: [ˈniːbəlʊŋən-], [ˈnɪbəlʊŋən-] or [ˌniːbəˈlʊŋənˌliːt] ; Middle High German: Der Nibelunge liet or Der Nibelunge nôt), translated as The Song of the Nibelungs, is an epic poem written around 1200 in Middle High German.

The Ramayana (; Sanskrit: रामायणम्, romanized: Rāmāyaṇam), also known as the Valmiki Ramayana, as traditionally attributed to Valmiki, is a Hindu smriti epic poem (also described as a Sanskrit epic) from ancient India.

El Cantar de mio Cid, or El Poema de mio Cid ("The Song of My Cid"; "The Poem of My Cid"), is an anonymous 12th-century cantar de gesta and the oldest preserved Castilian epic poem.

The Tale of the Heike (平家物語, Heike Monogatari) is an epic account compiled prior to 1330 of the struggle between the Taira clan and Minamoto clan for control of Japan at the end of the 12th century in the Genpei War (1180-1185).

The Epic of Sundiata (; Manding languages: ߛߏ߲߬ߖߘߊ߬ Sònjàdà, also referred to as Sundiata or Son-Jara; Arabic: ملحمة سوندياتا; French: L'épopée de Soundjata) is an epic poem of the Malinke people that tells the story of Sundiata Keita, the founder of the Mali Empire in West Africa, who ruled from 1235 C.E. until his death in 1255 C.E.

It is an epic poem written in Old French and is the first example of the chanson de geste, a literary form that flourished between the 11th and 16th centuries in Medieval Europe and celebrated legendary deeds.