Surf these sites: Background to Homer & Epic Poetry -- A study of epic poetry with its focus on the works of Homer. Bob Yantosca''s Epic Poetry Quiz -- A quick test of your knowledge of epic poetry ranging from "Beowulf" to Dante. HyperEpos -- Links to epic poetry, criticism, resources Introduction to Latin Epic : What is Epic? -- A general introduction to epic and narrative poetry. Lyrical Ballads -- "This html e-text has been prepared by Richard Bear from the original edition of Lyrical Ballads, the Bristol imprint of 1798." Narrative Poems -- A brief and basic definition, with an illustrative example, of the narrative poem. Poems from Boston & Cambridge -- Contemporary narrative poems by poet Michael Benedikt; ''Xmas on Bay State Road,'' ''Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon,'' etc. Poetry from Beowulf to the Present: Forgotten Ground Regained -- Resources on alliterative epic poetry in English - works like Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. With modern poems in the same style, links to translations and originals, essays, and more. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -- An online translation of the Middle English epic poem, "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", with links to related resources. SkylondaWorks Consulting and Desktop Publishing of Narrative Poetry -- Desktop publishing of narrative poetry, including the author''s Onegin-like Nineteenth-Century Friend in tetrameter sonnets. The Internet Classics Archive -- Includes complete texts of the epics of Homer (Butler''s translations) and Virgil (Dryden''s translation).
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