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Anonymous Sun Jun 27 12:26:49 2021 No.18538420 [Reply] [Original]

Are there any good epics that were originally written in English? Any suggestions?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 27 12:27:13 2021 No.18538424 >>18538420 Pradife Loft

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 27 12:27:23 2021 No.18538425 >>18538420 Beowulf

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 27 12:30:25 2021 No.18538442 >>18538425 English that a modern English speaker can read.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 27 12:38:42 2021 No.18538485 >>18538442 Paradise lost is written in modern English though. Hate to break it to you, you might be retarded

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 27 12:40:15 2021 No.18538491 >>18538420 Henriad

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 27 12:46:29 2021 No.18538523 >>18538491 This. Also Moby Dick.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 27 12:48:49 2021 No.18538534 A Cycle of the West

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 27 12:49:03 2021 No.18538535 >>18538420 the faerie queene, paradise lost, clarel, the dunciad...

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 27 13:11:09 2021 No.18538660 >>18538485 I wasn't replying to you bud. You might be retarded.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 27 13:15:34 2021 No.18538693 The Faerie Queene & Paradise Lost

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 27 13:17:47 2021 No.18538702 >>18538420 Clarel.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 27 13:22:31 2021 No.18538733 >>18538442 Hwæt spræcest þu, freond? Canst þu naht ðæt understandan?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 27 13:27:02 2021 No.18538760 >>18538733 Nice cherrypicking. Most speakers of Modern English could get only a few words out of a page of Beowulf.