United States written in Switzerland and completed in 1961 H.D., Helen in Egypt When H. D., or Hilda Doolittle, completed her long poem Helen in Egypt in 1961, she explicitly construed it as a response to the rambling, ultimately unfinished modernist...
United States 1985 Frederick Turner, The New World: An Epic Poem When Frederick Turner’s The New World first appeared in 1985 in the Princeton series of Contemporary Poets there was nothing quite like it in American literature. Written in unrhymed, five-stress, often...
United States First publication date: 1988 Frederick Turner, Genesis: An Epic Poem of the Terraforming of Mars In 1988 when Frederick Turner published the 10,000 lines of iambic pentameter that constitute Genesis, his epic on the transformation...
Saint Lucia (West Indies) Published: 1990 Derek Walcott Omeros Omeros (1990) upends the conventions of canonical Western epics by turning Caribbean fishermen into twentieth century heroes. In its titular allusion to Homer as well as in its topical and formal...
United States First publication date: 2016 Frederick Turner, Apocalypse: An Epic Poem Frederick Turner’s third epic poem Apocalypse (2016) opens dramatically in the year 2067 with a colossal windstorm sweeping across the North Sea, causing...
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