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Edmund Spenser - Faerie Queene (version 2)

Spenser planned a 24-book romance-epic consisting of two parts, of which he completed half of the first. The first twelve books were to illustrate the development of virtues within the individual soul, and the second...

Thomas A. Copeland 32 hours 10 minutes

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Poetry

481

Alfred Noyes - Drake

Alfred Noyes, in the blank-verse epic «Drake», fictionalizes the historical Francis Drake, who, during the reign of Elizabeth I of England, sailed (and plundered) on the Spanish Main and beyond. (Summary by Cynthia...

Cynthia Moyer 8 hours 1 minute

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Poetry

433

Torquato Tasso - Jerusalem Delivered

The First Crusade provides the backdrop for a rich tapestry of political machinations, military conflicts, martial rivalries, and love stories, some of which are complicated by differences in religion. The...

Thomas A. Copeland 14 hours 39 minutes

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Poetry

513

John Milton - Adam and Eve

LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Adam and Eve (From “Paradise Lost,” Fourth Book) by John Milton. This was the Weekly Poetry project for Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the...

Amy and 14 more 17 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Homer - Iliad (Pope Translation)

Homer’s Iliad is the first great work of Western literature. Composed in twenty-four books of Greek hexameter poetry, it portrays the events of the last year of the Trojan War. Its translation into rhyming couplets...

Steven R. Perkins and 1 more 19 hours 11 minutes

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534

Valmiki - Ramayan, Book 2

The Ramayan(a) is an ancient Sanskrit epic. It is attributed to the Hindu sage Valmiki and forms an important part of the Hindu canon (smṛti). The Ramayana is one of the two great epics of India, the other being...

om123 11 hours 45 minutes Ramayan (Ramayana)

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543

George Gordon, Lord Byron - Don Juan, Cantos 13 - 16

These are the last four Cantos of his mock epic that Byron completed in the year before his death at the age of 36 in Messolonghi, Greece, where he had gone to fight for the nationalists against the Ottoman Empire....

Peter Gallagher 3 hours 13 minutes

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Mahabharata by Vyasa: The epic of ancient India condensed into English verse

Poetry

463

Romesh C. Dutt - Mahabharata by Vyasa: The epic of ancient India condensed into English verse

The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India. Traditionally, the authorship of the Mahabharata is attributed to Vyasa. With more than 74,000 verses, Mahabharata is said to be the longest...

om123 6 hours 25 minutes

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Historical Fiction

538

Luís Vaz de Camões - Lusiads

The Lusiads (Os Lusíadas) is a Portuguese epic poem, written in the 16th century by Luis Vaz de Camões. The poem tells the tale of the Portuguese discoveries in the 15th and 16th centuries, specially the voyage to...

Leni 9 hours 46 minutes

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510

Anonymous - Song of Roland

The Song of Roland is an epic poem, originally sung in Old French. It tells the story of the Battle of Roncevaux Pass in 778. This is an English translation. (Introduction by Joy Chan)

Joy Chan 3 hours 55 minutes

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John Milton - Paradise Regained

Paradise Regained is a poem by the 17th century English poet John Milton, published in 1671. It is connected by name to his earlier and more famous epic poem Paradise Lost, with which it shares similar theological...

Sibella Denton and 3 more 1 hour 41 minutes

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544

Virgil - Aeneid

The Aeneid is a Latin epic written by Virgil in the 1st century BC that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. The first six of the poem’s...

Justin Brett and 9 more 13 hours 39 minutes

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