Buy at Amazon Yes, “The Waste Land” is Eliot’s best-known poem, and rightly so. It is epic, it references a myriad of works from the past while commenting on its present, it’s competent throughout and ...

Best known for his epic poem, “The Aeneid”, Virgil (70 – 19 BC) was regarded by Romans as a national treasure. His work reflects the relief he felt as civil war ended and the rule of ...

Humanity’s unshakable attraction to warfare and its ramifications are unmistakable themes that run throughout this powerful ...

Homer’s second epic poem about the journey undertaken by Odysseus returning home from the Trojan War—a journey that took ten years. You may remember the strategy employed by the Greeks ...

A 16th-Century epic poem based on the life of popular Hindu god Ram is at the centre of a huge political row in India. Ramcharitmanas is counted by many scholars to be among the world's greatest ...