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Poets with tag Epic:

Epic poetry. Lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation.

Homeric epics, the earliest works of Western literature, were fundamentally an oral poetic form. These works form the basis of the epic genre in Western literature. Nearly all Western epic (including Virgil's Aeneid and Dante's Divine Comedy) self-consciously presents itself as a continuation of the tradition begun by these poems. Classical epic employs dactylic hexameter and recounts a journey, either physical (as typified by Odysseus in the Odyssey) or mental (as typified by Achilles in the Iliad) or both. Epics also tend to highlight cultural norms and to define or call into question cultural values, particularly as they pertain to heroism.

Name	Years	Country	Tags	Works	Rank
Homer	-800-	GRC	Epic, National	2	45
Ovid	-43-	ROM	Epic	29	283
Valmiki	301-	IND	Mysticism, Epic	1	225
Kalidasa	353-420	IND	Spiritualism, Epic	20	126
Dante Alighieri	1265-1321	ITA	Christian, Classicism, Epic, Medieval, National, Sonnet, Vernacular	21	32
Tulsidas	1543-1623	IND	Mysticism, Spiritualism, Epic	10	176
John Milton	1608-1674	ENG	Blank verse, Christian, Devotional, Didactism, Enlightenment, Epic, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Slavery, Sonnet, Vernacular	88	28
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	1749-1831	DEU	Epic, Freemasons, National, Pantheism, Philosophy, Romanticism, Slavery, Sturm und Drang	364	47
Percy Bysshe Shelley	1792-1822	ENG	Aestheticism, Anarchism, Bipolar disorder, Blank verse, Didactism, Epic, Fantasy, Gothic, Romanticism, Slavery, Sonnet	325	18
John Keats	1795-1821	ENG	Aestheticism, Agnosticism, Bipolar disorder, Epic, Gothic, Romanticism, Sonnet	160	7
Vasko Popa	1922-1991	SRB/ROU	Epic, Modernism	32	234

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