Bearslayer: A free translation from the unrhymed Latvian into English heroic verse

The Ballad of the White Horse

G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton’s The Ballad of the White Horse is an epic‑style poem that treats the legendary King Alfred…

The Song Celestial; Or, Bhagavad-Gîtâ (from the Mahâbhârata) Being a discourse between Arjuna, Prince of India, and the Supreme Being under the form of Krishna

The Song Celestial, or Bhagavad‑Gîtâ, is a Sanskrit poem embedded in the sixth “Bhishma” Parva of the…

Paradise Regained

John Milton

National Epics

Kate Milner Rabb

Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry

John Dryden

The Harvard Classics, Volume 49, Epic and Saga With Introductions And Notes