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Homer
Greek epic poet wrote epic poems "Iliad", "Odyssey"
[ 100% ] Last updated: Tue 25th Jul 06
Rustaveli, Shota
Georgian national epic poet wrote epic poem "The Knight in the Tiger's Skin"
[ 100% ] Last updated: Tue 25th Jul 06
Zrinyi, Miklos
Hungarian general, patriot, and epic poet opposed Turkish and Hapsburg rule of Hungary wrote epic poem "Szigeti ...
[ 95% ] Last updated: Tue 25th Jul 06
Firdausi (also Ferdowsi, Firdawsi, Firdusi, Firdousi; orig. Abul Kasim Man)
Persian epic poet wrote Persian national epic poem "Shah Namah" 1010 (also "The Book of Kings", "Shah ...
[ 85% ] Last updated: Tue 25th Jul 06
Garcia de Mascarenhas, Braz
Portuguese epic poet
[ 68% ] Last updated: Tue 25th Jul 06
Lorris, Guillaume de
French epic poet
[ 68% ] Last updated: Tue 25th Jul 06
Meung, Jean de (Jean Clopinel)
French epic poet and satirist
[ 67% ] Last updated: Tue 25th Jul 06
Lamprecht the Priest
French clergyman and historical epic poet
[ 66% ] Last updated: Tue 25th Jul 06
Gama, Jose Basilio de
Brazilian poet wrote epic poem "O Uruguay" 1769
[ 65% ] Last updated: Tue 25th Jul 06
Potocki, Waclaw
Polish poet wrote epic poem "Wojna Chocimska"
[ 65% ] Last updated: Tue 25th Jul 06
Spitteler, Carl Friedrich Georg (pseudonym Felix Tandem)
Swiss epic poet Nobel Prize in Literature 1919
[ 65% ] Last updated: Tue 25th Jul 06
Khani, Ahmad (also Ehmede Xani)
Kurdish national poet wrote epic poem "Mem and Zin" 1695
[ 65% ] Last updated: Tue 25th Jul 06
Tasso, Torquato
Italian poet wrote epic poem "Jerusalem Delivered" 1575 (also "Gerusalemme Liberata")
[ 63% ] Last updated: Tue 25th Jul 06
Dutt, Michael Madhu Sudan
Indian Bengali dramatist and poet wrote epic poems "Tillotama" 1860, "Maghanad-Badha" 1861
[ 62% ] Last updated: Tue 25th Jul 06
Gyongyosi, Istvan
Hungarian poet wrote epic poem "Muranyi Venus" 1664, poetry collections "Rose Wreath" 1690, "Kemeny-Janos" ...
[ 59% ] Last updated: Tue 25th Jul 06
Lonnrott, Elias
Finnish-Swedish folklorist and philologist compiled Finnish national epic "Kalevala"
[ 59% ] Last updated: Tue 25th Jul 06
Jalal ad-Din ar-Rumi (also Jalal-ud-din Rumi)
... and Sufi mystic founded Maulawiyah sect of Sufi dervishes wrote epic poem "Masnavi" (also "Mesnevi")
[ 58% ] Last updated: Tue 25th Jul 06
Ingemann, Bernhard Severin
Danish novelist and poet wrote epic poem "Valdemar the Great and his Men" 1824, novels "Valdemar ...
[ 57% ] Last updated: Tue 25th Jul 06
Goncalves Dias, Antonio
... poet wrote poetry collections "Primeiros Cantos" 1846, "Ultimos Cantos" 1851, epic poem "Os Timbiras" 1857
[ 57% ] Last updated: Tue 25th Jul 06
Barbour, John
Scottish poet wrote Scottish national epic poem "The Brus" father of Scottish history and poetry
[ 57% ] Last updated: Tue 25th Jul 06
Wolfram von Eschenbach
... a German knight and poet, regarded as one of the greatest epic poets of his time. As a Minnesinger, he also ...
[ 56% ] Last updated: Fri 01st Jun 07
Cinna, Gaius Helvius
Roman poet wrote poem "Proempticon Pollionis", epic poem "Smyrna" reputedly killed by mob at Julius Caesar's funeral ...
[ 55% ] Last updated: Tue 25th Jul 06
Heidenstam, [Carl Gustaf] Verner von
... patriot wrote poetry collection "Pilgrimage and Years of Wandering" 1888, epic poem "Hans Alienus" 1892, novles "The Tree of the Folkungs" ...
[ 55% ] Last updated: Tue 25th Jul 06
Yergin, Daniel Howard
... War and the National Security State" 1977, "The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power" 1991 (Pulitzer Prize for ...
[ 55% ] Last updated: Tue 25th Jul 06
Vergil (also Virgil; Publius Vergilius Maro)
... of his death, he devoted to the composition of The Aeneid, the national epic of Rome, to glory the Empire. 31 ... four years later by the Roman Senate, was already pressing Virgil to write an epic to praise his regime. 19 B.C ...
[ 54% ] Last updated: Fri 22nd Jun 07
Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus)
... born on this year. His only known work is the epic philosophical poem De Rerum Natura, On the Nature of Things. ...
[ 54% ] Last updated: Fri 18th May 07
Hauptmann, Gerhart Johann Robert
... 1889, "Lonely Lives" 1891, "The Weavers" 1892, "Drayman Henshel" 1899, epic poem "Till Eulenspiegel" 1928, "Atrides" tetralogy 1941-1948 Nobel Prize in ...
[ 54% ] Last updated: Tue 25th Jul 06
Chen Kaige
... with Temptress Moon, another period drama starring Gong Li. 1999 - His The Emperor and the Assassin, an epic involving the ... about a young violinist and his father. 2005 - He directed ...
[ 52% ] Last updated: Mon 28th May 07
Eulenspiegel, Till (also Dylulenspegel, Howleglas)
... Strauss' symphonic poem "Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks" 1894, Gerhart Hauptmann's epic poem "Till Eulenspiegel" 1928
[ 52% ] Last updated: Tue 25th Jul 06
Valmiki
... Valmiki is the ancient author of the Hindu epic Ramayana.
[ 52% ] Last updated: Mon 11th Dec 06
