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Poetry - Epic Genre
Books in the Poetry - Epic genre:
The Canterbury Tales (1961)
A selection of Chaucer’s tales for children, in modern English.
Author(s):
Geoffrey Chaucer
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
The Song of Roland (1961)
The great French romance, here in a verse translation.
Author(s):
Hilda Cummings Price
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (1962)
Poems that shed further light on middle-earth.
Author(s):
J. R. R. Tolkien
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Saint George and the Dragon (1963)
Author(s):
Edmund Spenser
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
The Collected Poems of G. K. Chesterton (1966)
This collection includes The Ballad of the White Horse as well as the shorter poems.
Author(s):
G. K. Chesterton
Illustrator(s):
None
Tales of the Greek Heroes (1979)
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
Oultre Jourdain (1980)
An epic poem about Arabia and the Holy Land.
Author(s):
Christopher Thomas Tower
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Bilbo’s Last Song (1990)
Bilbo Baggins bids good-bye to Middle Earth.
Author(s):
J. R. R. Tolkien
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
The Ballad of the White Horse (2001)
Author(s):
G. K. Chesterton
Illustrator(s):
Robert Austin
Rama and Sita (2002)
A retelling of a Hindu epic poem.
Author(s):
David Weitzman
Illustrator(s):
David Weitzman