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The Long Poem

Three thousand years of poets trying to contain everything in a single work. Start at Uruk, end in the Caribbean.

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  1. 1
    The Epic of GilgameshAnonymous (-2100)
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    The IliadHomer (-750)
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    The OdysseyHomer (-750)
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    The AeneidVirgil (-19)
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    MetamorphosesOvid (8)
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    BeowulfAnonymous (850)
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    The Divine ComedyDante Alighieri (1308)
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    The Faerie QueeneEdmund Spenser (1590)
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    Paradise LostJohn Milton (1667)
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    The Rime of the Ancient MarinerSamuel Taylor Coleridge (1798)
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    Don JuanLord Byron (1824)
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    The PreludeWilliam Wordsworth (1850)
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    Song of MyselfWalt Whitman (1855)
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    The Waste LandT.S. Eliot (1922)
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    The CantosEzra Pound (1962)
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    Four QuartetsT.S. Eliot (1943)
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    HowlAllen Ginsberg (1956)
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    OmerosDerek Walcott (1990)