New Spain (New Mexico) First published: 1610 Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá Historia de la Nueva México When Gaspar Perez de Villagrá began writing his Historia de la Nueva México (1610), a Spanish epic about Don Juan de Oñate’s colonial expedition through New Mexico, he...
Italy / France 1623 Giambattista Marino, Adone (Adonis) Giambattista Marino’s Adone can be characterized as a mythical poem. The well-known love story of Venus and Adonis, featured in Cantos III, VIII, XV, XVII, and XVIII of this poem of 20 cantos, is compounded by...
China 1633 Yuan Yuling, The Heroic Adventures of Qin Shubao from Forgotten Tales of the Sui (Sui shi yiwen 隋史遺文) The translated Heroic Adventures of Qin Shubao (2025) constitutes the bulk of the narrative in a seventeenth-century Chinese novel, Yuan...
England Published: 1667 in 10 books, 1674 in 12 books John Milton Paradise Lost Paradise Lost emerged from the crucible of England’s Civil Wars, Interregnum, and Restoration, as well as the author’s life. John Milton (1608–74) had been...
England First published in 1671 John Milton, Paradise Regained Paradise Regained (1671) is a brief epic of 2,070 blank verse lines that John Milton (1608–74) published just four years after the first publication of his epic Paradise Lost (1667 in 10 books; 1674 in 12...
Recent Comments