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 ...

There are various versions of the Ramayana which you can read, the most popular ones being: Tulsidas's Ramcharitmanas is an epic poem in the Awadhi language, based on the Ramayana, and composed by the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Despite this, Ovid completed his finest work in exile. His epic poem, “Metamorphoses,” combines myth and history to tell the story of the Roman world, from its earliest days to the reign of ...

Just as the story of an epic poem is woven from characters and plot, so too the individual similes within an epic create a unique simile world. Like any other story, it is peopled by individual ...