The Epic: Poetry on the largest scale

The long heroic poem — gods and wars and journeys — from Homer and Virgil to Milton’s Paradise Lost and Dante’s descent.

In this collection

• Divine Comedy
• The Odyssey
• The Iliad
• Paradise Lost
• Paradise Regained
• Areopagitica
• The Aeneid
• The Eclogues
• The Georgics
• All collections