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Modern poets tend to avoid the epic style poetry of the past - but there can be no doubt that many of them were influenced greatly by these poems. This is a selection of the most well known epic poems from before the 20th century. While it is tempting to add the likes of Howl by Ginsberg and modernize the list,

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    monicachenoa1 month, 2 weeks ago

    reat choices here. I haven't heard of MahÄ;bhÄ;rata till now, but it sounds interesting.

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      CRYMTYPHON1 month, 2 weeks ago

      John Brown's Body, by Steven Vincent Benet.

      That is an amazing beautiful epic poem novel, moving in and out of all kinds of rythmic styles, telling about the american civil war.

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