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• Zhivotnyĭ ėpos na Zapadi︠e︡ i u slavi︠a︡n (Tip. Imperatorskago universiteta, 1882), by L. Kolmachevskiĭ (page images at HathiTrust)

• Zhivotnyĭ ėpos na Zapadi︠e︡ i u slavi︠a︡n (Tip. Imperatorskago universiteta, 1882), by L. Kolmachevskiĭ (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Epic and Saga: Beowulf; The Song of Roland; The Destruction of Dá Derga's Hostel; The story of the Volsungs and Niblungs (Harvard Classics v49; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, 1910), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson, trans. by Francis Barton Gummere, John O'Hagan, Whitley Stokes, Eiríkr Magnússon, and William Morris
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• National Epics, by Kate Milner Rabb (Gutenberg text)
• La divina commedia (F. Le Monnier, 1849), by Dante Alighieri, Brunone Bianchi, Paolo Costa, and Giuseppe Maffei (page images at HathiTrust)
• La divina commedia di Dante Alighieri. (N. Bettoni, 1825), by Dante Alighieri, Vincenzo Monti, and Giulio Perticari (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of epic poetry (post-Virgilian) (Oliver and Boyd; [etc., etc.], 1900), by John Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• National epics (A.C. McClurg, 1896), by Kate Milner Rabb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Epic and saga (P.F. Collier, 1910), by Charles William Eliot (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of the epic; the world's great epics told in story. (Biblo and Tannen, 1966), by H. A. Guerber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aspects of the speech in the later Roman epic (J. H. Furst company, 1909), by Herbert Cannon Lipscomb (page images at HathiTrust)
• The song of Roland (Houghton, Mifflin, 1904), by Isabel Butler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voltaire's Essay on epic poetry : a study and an edition ... (Brandow Print. Co., 1915), by Voltaire and Florence Donnell White (page images at HathiTrust)
• The heroic ballads of Russia (K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co.;, 1921), by Leonard A. Magnus (page images at HathiTrust)
• The epic of Paradise lost; twelve essays (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1907), by Marianna Woodhull (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroic idyls, with additional poems. (T.C. Newby, 1863), by Walter Savage Landor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations on poetry, especially the epic (London, Brotherton [etc.], 1738), by Henry Pemberton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cynewulfs Elene : mit Einleitung, Glossar, Anmerkungen und der lateinischen Quelle (C. Winter;, 1905), by Cynewulf and Ferdinand Holthausen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Zu den Kunstformen des mittelalterlichen Epos: Hartmanns "Iwein", das Nibelungenlied, Boccaccios "Filostrato" und Chaucers "Troylus and Cryseyde." (W. Braumüller, 1899), by Rudolf Fischer (page images at HathiTrust)
• I discorsi dell'arte, poetica, Il padre di famiglia, e L'Aminta (Ditta G. B. Paravia e comp., 1901), by Torquato Tasso and Angelo Solerti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die epische dichtung (L ipzig und Berlin, 1921), by Ernst Weber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Überlieferung der griechischen Heldensage bei Stesichoros (Klinkicht, 1886), by Friedrich Konrad Seeliger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kudrun (Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses, 1872), by Ernst Martin (page images at HathiTrust)
• National epics (A. C. McClurg and company, 1902), by Kate Milner Rabb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Declamatio qua poetas epopoeiae auctores recenset Frid. Gottl. Klopstockius scholae valedicturus die XXI. September. MDCCXLV. Accedit specimen autographi Klopstockiani. (Typis descripsit C.A. Klaffenbachius, 1839), by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Epic and saga (Collier, 1910) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Epistle to a friend concerning poetry (1700) and the Essay on heroic poetry (2d ed., 1697) (Augustan Reprint Society, 1947), by Samuel Wesley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Lusiad : an epic poem (J. Murray, 1826), by Luís de Camões and Thomas Moore Musgrave (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les larmes dans l'épopée, particulièrement dans l'épopée française jusqu'à la fin du XIIe siècle; étude de littérature comparée. (E. Karras, 1903), by Lucien Beszard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rede und Redeszene in der deutschen Erzählung bis Wolfram von Eschenbach. Kapitel I-III. (Mayer & Muller, 1908), by Werner Schwartzkopff (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Aelteste christlich Epik der Angelsachsen, Deutschen und Nordlander : ein Beitrag zur Kirchengeschichte (C. Bortelsmann, 1874), by Frederik Hammerich and Alexander Michelsen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die gattungen der epik. (1854), by Hermann Berthold Rumpelt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Galerent, comte de Bretagne. (Au Bureau des publications de la Société pour l'étude des langues romanes;, 1888), by active 12th century-13th century Jean Renart, Camille Chabaneau, and Anatole Boucherie (page images at HathiTrust)
• The classic poets; their lives and their times, with the epics epitomised (Smith, Elder, & co., 1879), by William T. Dobson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The divine man ; a new epic (The True light publishing company, 1905), by Joseph Ware (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sarcotis (apud J. Barbou, 1771), by Jakob Masen, William Laudér, and Bénigne Grenan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Mahāwansa, from the thirty-seventh chapter. (W.H. Herbert, government printer, Ceylon, 1877), by active 5th century Mahānāma, Hikkaḍuvē Śrī Sumaṅgala, active 1240-1275 Dhammakitti, H. Sumangala, and Don Andris De Silva Batuwantudawa (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bemerkungen zu den zwei ersten Büchern der Aeneis (Johann Friedrich Kehr, 1832), by Johann Heinrich Voss (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die epische dichtung (B.G. Teubner, 1909), by Ernst Weber (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Über formen der modernen lyrik und epik (Axel Lübbe) Eine kunstphilosophische studie. (E. Matthes, 1922), by Georg Mehlis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité du poëme epique ... (P. Gandoüin, 1708), by René Le Bossu (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays and poems (Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1839), by Jones Very, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Radcliffe College. Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ballad of the White Horse (John Lane Company, 1911), by G. K. Chesterton (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Henriade ; poëme, avec les notes et variantes, suivi de L'essai sur la poésie épique (Chez Ledentu, 1820), by Voltaire (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité du poëme épique. (A. Pralard, 1693), by René Le Bossu (page images at HathiTrust)
• Paradise lost. A poem in twelve books (T. Bedlington, 1825), by John Milton, Ezra Abbot, and T. Harrington Carter & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Comparatione di Homero, Virgilio e Torqvato : et a chi di loro si debba la palma nell'heroico poema. Del quale si vanno anco riconoscendo i preceti:con dar largo conto de'poeti heroici, tanto Greci, quanto Latini & Italiani. Et in particolare si fà guiditio dell' Ariosto (Appresso Lorenzo Pasquati, 1607), by Virgil, Homer, and Torquato Tasso (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gondibert: an heroick poem (Printed by Tho. Newcomb for John Holden, and are to be sold at his Shop at the sign of the Anchor in the New-Exchange, 1651), by William D'Avenant and Thomas Hobbes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Epic and saga; Beowulf, The songs of Roland, The destruction of Dá Derga's hostel, The story of the Volsungs and Niblungs. With introductions and notes. (P.F. Collier, 1910) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An oration pronounced at New-Haven, before the Society of Phi Beta Kappa, September 12, 1826. On some of the considerations which should influence an epic or a tragic writer in the choice of an era. ... (Published by A.H. Maltby and Co., 1826), by James Abraham Hillhouse and Phi Beta Kappa. Connecticut Alpha (Yale University) (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Araucana (Imprenta nacional, 1866), by Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga and Imprenta Nacional (Spain) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gita (Ek tēs typographias G. Chartophylakos, 1848), by Geōrgios Kozakēs Typaldos and Demetrius Galanos (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Cid : Nach spanischen Romanzen bezungen (F.A. Brockhaus, 1868), by approximately 1043-1099 Cid, Julian Schmidt, and Johann Gottfried Herder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Paradise lost; a poem. (Printed for Sharpe by Whittingham, 1821), by John Milton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die epische Dichtung (B.G. Teubner, 1915), by Ernst Weber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays and poems (Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1839), by Jones Very (page images at HathiTrust)
• The oldest English epic: Beowulf, Finnsburg, Waldere, Deor, Widsith, and the German Hildebrand (Macmillan, 1914), by Francis Barton Gummere (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zeno; oder, Die legende von den heiligen drei königen; Ancelmus, vom leiden Christi (J. Kühtmann, 1876), by August Lübben, Saint Anselm, August Lübben, and Germany) Landesbibliothek Oldenburg (Lower Saxony (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rede und redeszene in der deutschen erzählung bis Wolfram von Eschenbach. (Mayer & Müller, 1909), by Werner Schwartzkopff (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le dragon normand et autres poèmes (Ch. Métérie, 1884), by moine au Bec. Etienne de Rouen, Henri Auguste Omont, and Rouen Société de l'histoire de Normandie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Faery queene, book I (Clarendon Press, 1905), by Edmund Spenser, A. L. Mayhew, and G. W. Kitchin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Études littéraires sur l'apologue, la poésie lyrique, la poésie épique : chez les francais, les anglais, les allemands, les italiens et les espagnols : et sur la poésie hébraïque et la poésie orientale : renfermant des extraits, des analyses et des notices critiques et biographiques sur chaque auteur / par m. P. Cruice. (Perisse Frères, 1840), by Patrice François Marie Cruice (page images at HathiTrust)
• P. Papinius Statius. (in aedibus B. G. Teubneri, 1876), by P. Papinius Statius, Philipp Kohlmann, and Emil Baehrens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Evangeline, a tale of Acadie. (Van Cleve-Andrews company, 1895), by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ethelontēs tēs Krētēs (ek tou typographeiou K. Antōniadou, 1881), by Antōnios Iō. Antōniadēs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chios doulē; poiēma epikon vraveuthen kata ton poiētikon diagōnismon tou 1858. Pistē anatypōsis tēs prōtēs ekdoseōs. (A.D. Phexēs, 1905), by Theodōros Orphanidēs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hermann und Dorothea. (Hinds, Noble & Eldredge, 1899), by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Addison Hervey, and Hinds & Noble (page images at HathiTrust)
• Drake : an English epic (W. Blackwood, 1906), by Alfred Noyes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tegner's Frithiof's saga (Augustana book concern, 1908), by Esaias Tegnér, Clement B. Shaw, and Clement B. Shaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'epopea e la filosofia della storia. (eredi Segna, 1878), by Giacinto Fontana (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rencesval. (Lippert'sche Buchhandlung (Max Niemayer), 1872), by Edward Boehmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poėzī︠ia︡ : lek︠t︡sīi chitannyi︠a︡ v Sorbon︠ie︡ P. Alberom (Tip. Gubernskago Pravlenī︠ia︡, 1873), by Paul Albert and M. Krasnov (page images at HathiTrust)
• Outlines of lectures on general literature. Part II. Epic poetry. (University Press, 1880), by Charles C. Shackford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Yesterday, today, and forever. (Robert Carter & Brothers, 1872), by Edward Henry Bickersteth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voltaire's Essay on epic poetry; a study and an edition (The Brandow Printing Co., 1968), by Voltaire and Florence Donnell White (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gondibert : an heroick poem (Printed by Tho. Newcomb for John Holden, 1651), by William D'Avenant and Thomas Hobbes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conquest of Coomassie : an epic of the Mashanti nation (Long Beach, California : Worth While Publishing Company, [1923], 1923), by active 1923 Aldebaran and Henry M. Brooks (page images at HathiTrust)
• La conquête des étoiles : poème épique : suivi des jugements de la presse française et italienne (Paris : Bibliothèque internationale d'éditions E. Sansot & Cie, 1909., 1909), by F. T. Marinetti and Editions Sansot (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La conquête des étoiles : poème épique (Éditions de la Plume, 1902), by F. T. Marinetti (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Storia della poesia epica. (U. Hoepli, 1883), by Angelo De Gubernatis (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Shāhnāmah]. (1837), by Firdawsī and McGill University. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections (page images at HathiTrust)
• [ʼUnwān from the Khamsah]. (1550), by 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 Niẓāmī Ganjavī and McGill University. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections (page images at HathiTrust)
• [ʼUnwān from the Shāhnāmah]. (in the 15th century), by Firdawsī and McGill University. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections (page images at HathiTrust)
• [ʼUnwān from the Shāhnāmah]. (in the 15th century), by Firdawsī and McGill University. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections (page images at HathiTrust)
• [ʼUnwān from the Khamsah]. (1450), by 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 Niẓāmī Ganjavī and McGill University. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections (page images at HathiTrust)
• [ʼUnwān from the Shāhnāmah]. (1435), by Firdawsī and McGill University. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections (page images at HathiTrust)
• [ʼUnwān from the Haft Paykar]. (1491), by 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 Niẓāmī Ganjavī and McGill University. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections (page images at HathiTrust)
• [ʼUnwān from the Haft Paykar]. (1491), by 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 Niẓāmī Ganjavī and McGill University. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections (page images at HathiTrust)
• [ʼUnwān from the Shāhnāmah]. (1520), by Firdawsī and McGill University. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections (page images at HathiTrust)
• [ʼUnwān from the Shāhnāmah]. (1520), by Firdawsī and McGill University. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections (page images at HathiTrust)
• [ʼUnwān from the Shāhnāmah]. (1520), by Firdawsī and McGill University. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections (page images at HathiTrust)
• [ʼUnwān from the Khamsah]. (1525), by 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 Niẓāmī Ganjavī and McGill University. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections (page images at HathiTrust)
• [ʼUnwān from the Khamsah]. (1530), by 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 Niẓāmī Ganjavī and McGill University. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections (page images at HathiTrust)
• [ʼUnwān from the Gulistān]. (1550), by Sa'di and McGill University. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shāhnāmah Minature. (1650), by McGill University. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections (page images at HathiTrust)
• [One leaf from the the Shāhnāmah]. (in the 15th century), by Firdawsī and McGill University. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Miniature of Iskandar fighting the Indians]. (1590), by Firdawsī and McGill University. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections (page images at HathiTrust)
• [ʼUnwān from the Khamsah]. (in the 17th century), by 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 Niẓāmī Ganjavī and McGill University. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections (page images at HathiTrust)
• [ʼUnwān from the Qaṣā'id]. (in the 16th century), by Sa'di and McGill University. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections (page images at HathiTrust)
• [ʼUnwān from the Shāhnāmah]. (in the 16th century), by Firdawsī, Ali Mir, and McGill University. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections (page images at HathiTrust)
• [ʼUnwān from the Shāhnāmah]. (1600), by Firdawsī and McGill University. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections (page images at HathiTrust)
• [One leaf from the the Shāhnāmah]. (1600), by Firdawsī and McGill University. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections (page images at HathiTrust)
• [ʼUnwān from the Shāhnāmah]. (1300), by Firdawsī and McGill University. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Unwān from the Shāhnāmah] (1400), by Firdawsī and McGill University. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections (page images at HathiTrust)
• [ʼUnwān from the Shāhnāmah]. (1341), by Firdawsī and McGill University. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections (page images at HathiTrust)
• [ʼUnwān from the Shāhnāmah]. (1341), by Firdawsī and McGill University. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections (page images at HathiTrust)
• [ʼUnwān from the Shāhnāmah]. (1400), by Firdawsī and McGill University. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Rustam catching the emperor of China]. (1430), by Firdawsī and McGill University. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections (page images at HathiTrust)
• [ʼUnwān from the Shāhnāmah]. (1450), by Firdawsī and McGill University. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections (page images at HathiTrust)
• [ʼUnwān from the Shāhnāmah]. (1580), by Firdawsī and McGill University. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Khamsah]. (in the 16th century), by active 1110-1161 Niẓāmī ʻArūz̤ī and McGill University. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections (page images at HathiTrust)
• [ʼUnwān from the Shāhnāmah]. (1625), by Firdawsī and McGill University. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections (page images at HathiTrust)
• [ʼUnwān from the Shāhnāmah]. (1625), by Firdawsī and McGill University. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections (page images at HathiTrust)
• [ʼUnwān from the Būstān]. (in the 17th century), by Sa'di and McGill University. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections (page images at HathiTrust)
• [ʼUnwān from the Shāhnāmah]. (in the 16th century), by Firdawsī and McGill University. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Leaf from the Shāhnāmah]. (in the 15th century), by Firdawsī and McGill University. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections (page images at HathiTrust)
• [ʼUnwān from the Shāhnāmah]. (in the 15th century), by Firdawsī and McGill University. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections (page images at HathiTrust)
• [ʼUnwān from the Shāhnāmah]. (in the 15th century), by Firdawsī and McGill University. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections (page images at HathiTrust)
• [ʼUnwān from the Gulistān]. (in the 16th century), by Sa'di and McGill University. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays of John Dryden (Russell, 1961), by John Dryden and W. P. Ker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oberon : ein romantisches Heldengedicht in zwölf Gesägen (Verlag von C.F. Wöfchen, 1841), by Christoph Martin Wieland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poems and essays (Houghton, Mifflin, 1886), by Jones Very, C. A. Bartol, and James Freeman Clarke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays of John Dryden (Oxford [Oxfordshire] : At the Clarendon Press, 1926., 1926), by John Dryden and W. P. Ker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bhagavad-Gita: Herrens Sång (in Swedish), trans. by Hjalmar Johannes Runeberg (Gutenberg ebook)
• Bhagavadgita — Des Erhabenen Sang: Religiöse Stimmen der Völker: Die Religion des alten Indien II (in German), trans. by Leopold von Schroeder (Gutenberg ebook)
• Le renard (in French), by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, trans. by Édouard Grenier (Gutenberg ebook)
• Bearslayer: A free translation from the unrhymed Latvian into English heroic verse, by Andrejs Pumpurs, trans. by A. J. Cropley (Gutenberg ebook)
• Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and the Essay on Heroic Poetry (second edition, 1697), by Samuel Wesley, contrib. by Edward Niles Hooker (Gutenberg ebook)

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