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Poetry - Epic Genre
Books in the Poetry - Epic genre:
Rhyme? and Reason? (1883)
Author(s):
Lewis Carroll
Illustrator(s):
A. B. Frost
Henry Holiday
The Faerie Queene (1894)
Author(s):
Edmund Spenser
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
Evangeline (1897)
Longfellow’s poem deals with a French Canadian love story.
Author(s):
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Illustrator(s):
Violet Oakley
Jessie Willcox Smith
The History of Reynard the Fox (1897)
Author(s):
William Caxton
F. S. Ellis
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
The Ballad of the White Horse (1911)
Author(s):
G. K. Chesterton
Illustrator(s):
None
The Cambridge Book of Poetry for Children (1916)
Author(s):
Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s):
Maud Fuller
The Courtship of Miles Standish (1920)
Author(s):
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Rainbow Gold: Poems Old and New (1922)
An anthology of poetry enhanced with Dugald Stewart Walker’s fantastic pen and ink drawings.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Dugald Stewart Walker
The Odyssey of Homer (1929)
This prose translation of the Odyssey aims to convey the full force of the Greek original.
Author(s):
Homer
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
John Brown’s Body (1930)
An epic poem about the abolitionist and domestic terrorist.
Author(s):
Stephen Vincent Benet
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Rustam: Lion of Persia (1930)
A retelling of the Persian epic concerning the knight paladin Rustam from the Shahnameh or Book of Kings of Ferdowsi, written around 1000 A.D.
Author(s):
Alan Lake Chidsey
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
The Story of Roland (1930)
Author(s):
James Baldwin
Illustrator(s):
Peter Hurd
Odysseus: Sage of Greece (1931)
A retelling of the Odyssey.
Author(s):
Alan Lake Chidsey
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
The Story of Siegfried (1931)
A retelling of the Norse and German myths of the hero warrior Siegfried.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
James Baldwin
Illustrator(s):
Peter Hurd
Roland the Warrior (1934)
A retelling of La Chanson de Roland.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Virginia M. Collier
Jeanette Eaton
Illustrator(s):
Frank Schoonover
The Story of Odysseus (1937)
The Odyssey of Homer.
Beowulf (1939)
Author(s):
William Ellery Leonard
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
Anthology of Children’s Literature (1940)
An immense anthology with everything from Mother Goose to Eve Curie.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Edna Johnson
Carrie E. Scott
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
The Magic Circle: Stories and People in Poetry (1952)
A collection of poems which tell a story.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Beth Krush
Joe Krush
The Tale of Troy (1958)
Author(s):
Roger Lancelyn Green
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes