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Poetry - Epic Genre

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Books in the Poetry - Epic genre:

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (1962)

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Poems that shed further light on middle-earth.

Author(s): J. R. R. Tolkien
Illustrator(s): Pauline Baynes

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Saint George and the Dragon (1963)

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In this retelling of the first book of “The Faerie Queene,” Sandol Warburg brings the story to readers unfamiliar with Spenser’s archaic style. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Edmund Spenser
Illustrator(s): Pauline Baynes

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The Collected Poems of G. K. Chesterton (1966)

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This collection includes The Ballad of the White Horse as well as the shorter poems.

Author(s): G. K. Chesterton
Illustrator(s): None

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Tales of the Greek Heroes (1979)

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A collection of the most famous Greek hero tales.

Read online at archive.org. 

Author(s): Roger Lancelyn Green
Illustrator(s): Pauline Baynes
Betty Middleton-Sandford

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Oultre Jourdain (1980)

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An epic poem about Arabia and the Holy Land.

Author(s): Christopher Thomas Tower
Illustrator(s): Pauline Baynes

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Bilbo’s Last Song (1990)

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Bilbo Baggins bids good-bye to Middle Earth.

Author(s): J. R. R. Tolkien
Illustrator(s): Pauline Baynes

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The Ballad of the White Horse (2001)

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A poem by G. K. Chesterton about the idealised exploits of the Saxon King Alfred the Great.Before the gods that made the gods Had seen their sunrise pass, The White Horse of the White Horse Vale Was cut out of the grass.... View More

Author(s): G. K. Chesterton
Illustrator(s): Robert Austin

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Rama and Sita (2002)

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A retelling of a Hindu epic poem.

Author(s): David Weitzman
Illustrator(s): David Weitzman

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