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The Song Celestial; Or, Bhagavad-Gîtâ - Unknown
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The Song Celestial; Or, Bhagavad-Gîtâ - Unknown
This work is a unique rendering of the Bagavad Gita by a well known poet. It is faithful to the text and yet does not read like a translation.The Sanskrit original is written in the Anushtubh metre. It has been cast into flexible blank verse by Sir...
The Iliad - Homer
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The Iliad - Homer
  • Author: Homer
  • Genre: Epics
The Iliad, together with the Odyssey, is one of two ancient Greek epic poems traditionally attributed to Homer. The poem is commonly dated to the 8th or 7th century BC, and many scholars believe it is the oldest extant work of literature in the...
The Ballad of the White Horse - G. K. Chesterton
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The Ballad of the White Horse - G. K. Chesterton
An English epic poem that follows the exploits of Alfred the Great in his defense of Christian civilization in England from the heathen nihilism of the North. Following a string of defeats at the hands of the invading Danes, a vision from heaven in...
Beowulf (version 2) - Unknown
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Beowulf (version 2) - Unknown
Beowulf was composed by an anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet. Francis Barton Gummere translates this beautiful poem. Beowulf is an epic poem. The main character, Beowulf, proves himself a hero as he battles against supernatural demons and beasts. (Summary...
Paradise Regained - John Milton
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Paradise Regained - John Milton
Paradise Regained is a poem by the 17th century English poet John Milton, published in 1671. It is connected by name to his earlier and more famous epic poem Paradise Lost, with which it shares similar theological themes. Based on the Gospel of...
The Aeneid of Virgil (Version 2) - Virgil
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The Aeneid of Virgil (Version 2) - Virgil
  • Author: Virgil
  • Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Epics
The Aeneid is a Latin epic written by Virgil in the 1st century BC that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. The first six of the poem’s twelve books tell the story of...
Balder Dead (version 2) - Matthew Arnold
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Balder Dead (version 2) - Matthew Arnold
The poem begins with the beloved god Balder, thought to be invulnerable, dead at the hands of the inoffensive blind god Hoder, in a game. Loki, whose deceit brought about this catastrophe, is promptly punished with exile, and Odin, Balder's father,...
Jerusalem Delivered - Torquato Tasso
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Jerusalem Delivered - Torquato Tasso
The First Crusade provides the backdrop for a rich tapestry of political machinations, military conflicts, martial rivalries, and love stories, some of which are complicated by differences in religion. The supernatural plays a major role in the...
The Iliad (Pope Translation) - Homer
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The Iliad (Pope Translation) - Homer
  • Author: Homer
  • Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Historical Fiction / Epics
Homer’s Iliad is the first great work of Western literature. Composed in twenty-four books of Greek hexameter poetry, it portrays the events of the last year of the Trojan War. Its translation into rhyming couplets by Alexander Pope is considered by...
The Odysseys of Homer - Homer
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The Odysseys of Homer - Homer
  • Author: Homer
  • Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Epics
The Odysseys are a collection of stories about Ulysses' journey home from the war at Troy purportedly written in the 8th century BCE by Homer, a blind poet thought to have lived in the Greek colonies in Asia Minor, possibly at Smyrna. The events...
Paradise Lost - John Milton
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Paradise Lost - John Milton
Paradise Lost is the first epic of English literature written in the classical style. John Milton saw himself as the intellectual heir of Homer, Virgil, and Dante, and sought to create a work of art which fully represented the most basic tenets of...
The Ballad of the White Horse (Version 3) - G. K. Chesterton
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The Ballad of the White Horse (Version 3) - G. K. Chesterton
  • Author: G. K. Chesterton
  • Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Epics / Christian Fiction
This epic poem is about Alfred the Great's defense of Christian England against the pagan Viking invaders. The decisive battle is fought in sight of a white horse mark made on a hill, after which the poem is named. As the white horse mark must be...
Adam and Eve - John Milton
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Adam and Eve - John Milton
  • Author: John Milton
  • Genre: Poetry / Epics / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Adam and Eve (From “Paradise Lost,” Fourth Book) by John Milton. This was the Weekly Poetry project for Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. It was...
Hermann and Dorothea - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Hermann and Dorothea - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There are few modern poems of any country so perfect in their kind as the "Hermann and Dorothea" of Goethe. In clearness of characterization, in unity of tone, in the adjustment of background and foreground, in the conduct of the narrative, it...
The Faerie Queene (version 2) - Edmund Spenser
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The Faerie Queene (version 2) - Edmund Spenser
Spenser planned a 24-book romance-epic consisting of two parts, of which he completed half of the first. The first twelve books were to illustrate the development of virtues within the individual soul, and the second twelve were to depict the...
Paradise Lost (version 2) - John Milton
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Paradise Lost (version 2) - John Milton
As Vergil had surpassed Homer by adapting the epic form to celebrate the origin of the author’s nation, Milton developed it yet further to recount the origin of the human race itself and, in particular, the origin of and the remedy for evil; this is...
The Lusiads - Luís Vaz de CAMÕES
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The Lusiads - Luís Vaz de CAMÕES
The Lusiads (Os Lusíadas) is a Portuguese epic poem, written in the 16th century by Luis Vaz de Camões. The poem tells the tale of the Portuguese discoveries in the 15th and 16th centuries, specially the voyage to India by Vasco da Gama. Modelled...
The Aeneid, prose translation - Virgil
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The Aeneid, prose translation - Virgil
  • Author: Virgil
  • Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Epics
The Aeneid is the most famous Latin epic poem, written by Virgil in the 1st century BC. The story revolves around the legendary hero Aeneas, a Trojan prince who left behind the ruins of his city and led his fellow citizens to Italy, where he became...
The Ramayan, Book 2 - Valmiki
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The Ramayan, Book 2 - Valmiki
  • Author: Valmiki
  • Genre: Epics / Other religions
The Ramayan(a) is an ancient Sanskrit epic. It is attributed to the Hindu sage Valmiki and forms an important part of the Hindu canon (smṛti). The Ramayana is one of the two great epics of India, the other being Mahabharata. It is the story of Rama,...
Sohrab and Rustum: An Episode - Matthew Arnold
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Sohrab and Rustum: An Episode - Matthew Arnold
A young soldier born among Tartars but sired by the mighty Persian lord Rustum, serves in the Tartar army, seeking his great father. To this end, he persuades his general to call a truce and arrange for him to challenge the Persians to single...
Don Juan, Cantos 13 - 16 - George Gordon, Lord Byron
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Don Juan, Cantos 13 - 16 - George Gordon, Lord Byron
These are the last four Cantos of his mock epic that Byron completed in the year before his death at the age of 36 in Messolonghi, Greece, where he had gone to fight for the nationalists against the Ottoman Empire. Juan, now in England, is invited...
The Mahabharata by Vyasa: The epic of ancient India condensed into English verse - Romesh C. DUTT
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The Mahabharata by Vyasa: The epic of ancient India condensed into English verse - Romesh C. DUTT
The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India. Traditionally, the authorship of the Mahabharata is attributed to Vyasa. With more than 74,000 verses, Mahabharata is said to be the longest poem. Mahabharata tells the story...
The Aeneid - Virgil
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The Aeneid - Virgil
The Aeneid is a Latin epic written by Virgil in the 1st century BC that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. The first six of the poem’s twelve books tell the story of...
Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars - LUCAN
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Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars - LUCAN
  • Author: LUCAN
  • Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Single author / Epics
Lucan's only surviving work, De Bello Civili, more generally known as the Pharsalia, is an epic poem about the civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great. The title given by posterity to the poem refers to the Battle of Pharsalus, which...
The Song of Roland - Anonymous
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The Song of Roland - Anonymous
The Song of Roland is an epic poem, originally sung in Old French. It tells the story of the Battle of Roncevaux Pass in 778. This is an English translation. (Introduction by Joy Chan)...
Drake - Alfred Noyes
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Drake - Alfred Noyes
Alfred Noyes, in the blank-verse epic "Drake", fictionalizes the historical Francis Drake, who, during the reign of Elizabeth I of England, sailed (and plundered) on the Spanish Main and beyond. (Summary by Cynthia Moyer)...
Beowulf (Hall translation) - Unknown
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Beowulf (Hall translation) - Unknown
The most famous piece of Old English literature, Beowulf was written by an unknown poet at least 1000 years ago and tells how the eponymous hero who is a great warrior defeats the monster Grendel and his mother. He later goes on to rule the Geats...
Achilleid - Publius Papinius Statius
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Achilleid - Publius Papinius Statius
The Achilleid is the third and unfinished work by the Roman poet Publius Papinius Statius. In its introduction, it promises to present the life of the hero Achilles from his youth as a pupil under the centaur Chiron to his death at Troy. The author...
Georgics - Virgil
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Georgics - Virgil
  • Author: Virgil
  • Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Epics
Virgil's Georgics are the second of the three major poetic works ascribed to the poet. It was published probably around 29 BC and, as the name suggests, the subject of the poem is agriculture. Divided into four books, it is also the shortest of...
The Song of Three Friends - John Neihardt
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The Song of Three Friends - John Neihardt
The Song of Three Friends is one of five epic poems in Neihardt's, "Cycle of the West". In eight cantos it tells the tale of three friends, Mike Fink, Will Carpenter and Frank Talbeau, who travel up the Missouri River in 1822 as members of Ashley's...