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Anonymous06/23/25, 06:01No.24489249
What's the list of English Epics?
>Paradise Lost
>Faerie Queene
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Anon06/23/25, 06:03No.24489256
A curated assortment of the WW1 poets
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Anon06/23/25, 06:28No.24489293
Gavin Douglas' and Arthur Golding's translations have to count, considering their distinctness from the originals, and that their praise has been solely due to what the minds of these poets brought to them, than in their abilities as translators.
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Anon06/23/25, 06:30No.24489298
I don't consider them epic.
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Anon06/23/25, 06:33No.24489303
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Anon06/23/25, 06:39No.24489311
Pilgrim's Progress is arguably an epic, but sadly in the style of The Odyssey, not The Illiad.
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Anon06/23/25, 14:41No.24489922
Depends what you call Epic, depends what you call English. Here are some:Chaucer, ‘Troilus And Cressida’
Spenser, ‘The Fairie Queene’ (unfinished)
Shakespeare, ‘The Rape Of Lucrece’ (minor epic)
Milton, ‘Paradise Lost’ & ‘Paradise Regained’
Pope, ‘The Rape Of The Lock’ (mock-epic)
Keats, ‘Hyperion’ (unfinished)
Byron, ‘Don Juan’ (mock-epic, unfinished)
Longfellow, ‘Evangeline’ (1847)
Browning, ‘Sordello’ (1840) (‘The Ring And The Book’ isn't really an epic.)
Yeats, ‘The Wanderings of Oisin’ (1889)
Charles Montagu Doughty, ‘The Dawn in Britain’ (pub. 1906)
Chesterton, ‘The Ballad Of The White Horse’ (1906)
David Jones, ‘In Parenthesis’ (1937) & ‘The Anathemata’ (1952)Doughty is the guy who wrote "Travels in Arabia Deserta". That’s quite well-regarded but I’ve never met anyone who has read his mad epic poem.Browning’s wife wrote a thing. ‘Aurora Leigh’ it's called. It gets a lot of attention these days, needless to say, but I found it unreadable.
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Anon06/23/25, 14:46No.24489940
William Blake's Milton & Jerusalem
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Anon06/23/25, 14:50No.24489953
Omeros is good.
Robert Lowell reckoned Carlyle’s French Revolution counted as an English prose Epic
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Anon06/23/25, 14:53No.24489963
uh, hello???
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Anon06/23/25, 22:12No.24491044
English language, or "an epic for England?" Ulysses if the former.
I'd also add Don Juan even though he didn't finish it.
Middlemarch in the sense that it's a valorization of the everyday and the banal, it has the scope/scale, and is tremendous and superlative in its genre/era
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Anon06/23/25, 22:29No.24491075
The Battaile of Agincourt by Drayton
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Anon06/24/25, 01:35No.24491443
Lord of the Rings
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Anon06/24/25, 01:44No.24491465
Swwet Robbery Part II
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Anon06/24/25, 05:23No.24491894
No one said Beowulf yet?