/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.19236947]

How many epic poems have you read, anon?

[Anonymous No.19236972]

the first long narrative poem i could get into was Lay of the Last Minstrel by Walter Scott, only like 90 pages, but makes me want to read his longer poems Marmion and Lady of the Lake

[Anonymous No.19236978]

>>19236947
I read Beowulf

[Anonymous No.19236984]

>>19236947
A few. Beowulf as anyone with a sliver of Germanic ancestry should. Also many of the Eddas. The Havamal of course.

[Anonymous No.19236995]

>>19236984
>Also many of the Eddas. The Havamal of course.
not epic poetry

[Anonymous No.19237019]

Gilgamesh
Illiad
Hesiod
Odyssey
Aeneid
Metamorphoses
Beowulf

Might read more.

[Anonymous No.19237060]

>>19236984

There are just two Eddas no?

[Anonymous No.19237181]

Gilgamesh, Beowulf, the Poetic Eddas, and the General Prologue if that counts.

[Anonymous No.19237907]

>>19236947
>Ancients:
1. Gilgamesh
2. Iliad
3. Odyssey
4. Aeneid
5. Metamorphoses
>Medievals:
6. The Tain
7. Beowulf
8. Song of Roland
9. Nibelungenlied
10. Song of Igor's Campaign
>Moderns
11. Lusiads
12. Orlando Furioso
13. Jerusalem Delivered
14. Fairy Queen
15. Paradise Lost
16. Paradise Regained
17. La Henriade
18. Fingal
>Indians
19. Birth of the Young God
20. Arjuna and the Hunter
21. The Killing of Shishupala
>Persians
22. Shahnameh
Where next, /lit/? I'm saving Dante for when my Italian gets better. Thinking about Davideis, Epigoniad, Thebaid, or Knight in the Panther's Skin, can anyone hit me up with a rec? Is the Ramayana worth its length? Anyone here read Trissino, Ercilla, Klopstock, or Wieland?

[Anonymous No.19237947]

>>19237907
war and peace?

[Anonymous No.19237960]

>>19237947
bro that's a novel

[Anonymous No.19237970]

>>19237960
idk the difference, its an epic too me

[Anonymous No.19237980]

>Epic, long narrative poem recounting heroic deeds, although the term has also been loosely used to describe novels, such as Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace
I mean eh?

[Anonymous No.19237994]

>>19237970
>>19237980
haven't read it so I will not dispute the matter, but not the kind of rec I was looking for

[Anonymous No.19238012]

>>19237994
Yeah sorry, cant really help you then. Not really aware of any epics on the level of the Aeneid and such that you havent already listed.

[Anonymous No.19238158]

Iliad
Odyssey
Ecologues
Georgics
Aeneid
Metamorphoses
Fasti
Divine Comedy
Jerusalem Delivered
Faerie Queene
Paradise Lost
Paradise Regained
Hermann and Dorothea
Blake's Prophetic Works
Endymion
Sordello
Browning's Narrative Poems
Clarel
Tale of Balen
Tristram of Lyonesse
Paterson

[Anonymous No.19238458]

>>19236947
>The Odyssey (I know I need to read the Iliad, I just haven’t gotten around to it)
>The Divine Comedy
>The Cantos of Ezra Pound (I’m actually pretty fucking proud of myself for reading that book cover to cover)

[Anonymous No.19238480]

>>19236984
>Beowulf as anyone with a sliver of Germanic ancestry should
Are you English?

[Anonymous No.19239180]

>>19237907
Nonnus' Dionysiaca

[Anonymous No.19240750]

>>19237060
There are the prose and poetic Eddas with many tales inside, which I think is what was meant

[Anonymous No.19240836]

Evangeline is underrated.

[Anonymous No.19242042]

>>19237907
Nice painting, here is a larger version of it.
https://dezoomify.ophir.dev/#https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/the-battle-of-alexander-at-issus-albrecht-altdorfer/pwEE99INVKh1gQ

[Anonymous No.19242065]

>>19237907
Unrelated but does anyone know what is the name for the practice of endowing ancient characters with more modern apparel on painting? E.g this picture is supposed to show Alexander at Issos but the soldiers are equipped like medieval European knight. Or this painting of Aristotle where he is dressed like a 16th century merchant

[Anonymous No.19242068]

>>19242065
Anachronism?

[Anonymous No.19242559]

>>19242042
thx