Epic

Atlantis is a majestic, epic poem and a lasting jewel of Catalan literary tradition. With a colossal architecture and a descriptive power that creates memorable passages of prodigious beauty - the vision of the garden of the Hesperides and the dream of...

These controversial epic poems demonstrate Milton's genius for fusing sense and sound, classicism and innovation, narrative and drama in profound explorations of the moral problems of God's justice-and what it truly means to be human.About the AuthorJohn...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782357285170Author John Lesslie HallFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint Alicia EditionsPublisher Alicia EditionsWeight(grams) 494g

This is a powerful and moving tale of life written in the tradition of the classic Norse sagas. The Viking Age began over a thousand years ago when the ancient Norse perfected their ocean-going dragon-headed long ships. Young men, and later whole...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420955903Author AnonymousFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 200g

While preserving the basic narrative of the Iliad, this selection also highlights the epic's high poetic moments and essential mythological content, and will prove especially useful in surveys of world literature.About the AuthorStanley Lombardo is...

The first English translation of a thousand-year-old story of Krishna and his wife Satyabhama, retold by the most famous court poet of the Vijayanagara Empire.Legend has it that the sixteenth-century Telugu poet Nandi Timmana composed Theft of a Tree, or...

No king, no captain ever stood with better. Roland looks up on the mountains and slopes, sees the French dead, so many good men fallen, and weeps for them, as a great warrior weeps: “Barons, my lords, may God give you his grace, may he grant Paradise to...

In Zanzibar, in 2008, George Elliott Clarke began to write his "Canticles," an epic poem treating the Transatlantic Slave Trade, Imperial and colonial conquest, and the resistance to all these evils. That is the subject of Canticles I (MMXVI) and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629635132Author G. H. MossonFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

Ancient Epic offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to six of the greatest ancient epics - Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Vergil's Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Apollonius of Rhodes' Agonautica.* Provides an accessible introduction to the...

In Zanzibar, in 2008, George Elliott Clarke began to write his "Canticles," an epic poem treating the Transatlantic Slave Trade, Imperial and colonial conquest, and the resistance to all these evils. That is the subject of Canticles I (MMXVI) and...

"A Purple Sky" is an epic poem written in couplet rhymes. It is the story of three young adventurers who begin a quest in the wilderness to find an old native aboriginal man who lives the old ways. However, the journey takes an extraordinary...

When Lord Marmion, a favorite of the king, becomes enamored by Clara, a rich noble woman, he is willing to stop at nothing to get her attention. Though Clara is engaged to the heroic Sir Ralph De Wilton, and he already has a mistress, Lord Marmion views...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513207438Author George Gordon ByronFormat HardbackPage Count 460Imprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint EditionsWeight(grams) 127g

Martin Fierro: An Epic of the Argentine (1923) is an epic poem and accompanying scholarship by Jose Hernandez and Henry A. Holmes. Originally published in two parts, the poem has been praised as a defining work of Argentine literature for its depiction...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952055089Author Ehlayna NapolitanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Vegetarian Alcoholic PressPublisher Vegetarian Alcoholic PressWeight(grams) 59g

Armageddon is a contemporary epic poem about the major event of our own time. Written in blank verse, it narrates the defining event for civilisation today: the American President Bush's struggle against the Islamic extremism of Osama bin Laden and...

The Epic of the Cid records the deeds of Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, the Cid of history and legend. A powerful warrior in the Christian reconquest of medieval Spain, a formidable strategist, and a charismatic leader, the Cid deeply impressed his...

Selections from both Iliad and Odyssey, made with an eye for those episodes that figure most prominently in the study of mythology.About the AuthorStanley Lombardo is Professor of Classics, University of Kansas.Sheila Murnaghan is Professor of Classical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063338180Author J R R TolkienFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990048500Author David EggletonFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Otago University PressPublisher Otago University Press

In Fools’ Paradise, a mock-heroic poem on Brexit which complements his masque King Charles the Wise, Nicholas Hagger presents the most important British event since the Second World War: the Brexiteers’ struggle to wrest control of the UK’s laws,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771837071Author Carl HareFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Guernica Editions,CanadaPublisher Guernica Editions,CanadaWeight(grams) 152g

A New York Times Book Review "New & Noteworthy" Poetry Collection A Book Riot "Best Fall 2020 Book in Translation" Stone-Garland, this new entry in the Seedbank Series, presents translations of six poets of the Greek lyric tradition. Anecdotes of...

Poems (1920) is a collection of poems and plays by W.B. Yeats. Containing many of the poet's early important works, Poems illuminates Yeats' influence on the Celtic Twilight, a late-nineteenth century movement to revive the myths and traditions of...

Noam Reisner leads readers through the complexities of Milton's celebrated and challenging narrative poem as well as introducing them to the key critical views. The guide combines an introduction to the poem's main thematic and stylistic concerns...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398848757Author John MiltonFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798888976449Author Dante AlighieriFormat HardbackPage Count 154Imprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398848740Author Dante AlighieriFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

A magical, long-forgotten masterpiece, The Romance of William and the Werewolf is the story of two princes who overcame their wicked family to reclaim their inheritance and build a society based on tolerance and equality.Originally titled William of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798888975985Author Dante AlighieriFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789358565010Author John MiltonFormat HardbackPage Count 408Imprint Fingerprint! PublishingPublisher Fingerprint! Publishing