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Name	Poetry Epic
Description	Lengthy composition, elegy, epistle, or canto in verse pertaining to a heroic journey, event, or individual. Works in this category are often derived from the genre designation on the title page.

Titles

Displaying 1–9 of 9

ID	Title	Author	Firms (City)	Date	Edition
1651	An epic poem on Adam and Eve. With poetry, on two ladies in disguise. A short pastoral: also the soliloquy of a young lady ; together with a poem, an elegy, and a vindication of fate in marriage: to which is added, rules for polite behaviour. By Ann Holmes, Redmire ; Wensleydale.	Holmes , Ann	Joseph Todd (Bedale)	1800
600	Epistles on Women, Exemplifying their Character and Condition in Various Ages and Nations. With miscellaneous poems. By Lucy Aikin.	Aikin , Lucy	Joseph Johnson and Co. (London)	1810
14961	Epistles on Women, Exemplifying their Character and Condition in Various Ages and Nations. With miscellaneous poems. By Lucy Aikin.	Aikin , Lucy	Thomas B. Wait and Co. (Boston) William Wells (Boston)	1810	[American 1]
25410	Paradise lost: a poem. Attempted in rhime. Book I.	Milton , John Jackson , Andrew		1740
24949	Sir Hubert, an Heroic Ballad. By John Westbrooke Chandler.	Chandler , John Westbrooke		1800
8376	The Epics of the ton; or, the glories of the great world: a poem, in two books, with notes and illustrations. The Second Edition, with considerable Additions.	Hamilton , Anne	Charles and Richard Baldwin (London)	1807	The Second Edition, with considerable Additions.
5438	The glorious revolutions of 1782. A heroic poem. In two parts. By a lady.	Unknown , [Woman]	s.n. [sine nomine]	1782
12949	The Henriade, an Epic Poem, in Ten Cantos. Translated from the French of Voltaire, into English Rhyme, with large Historical and Critical Notes.	Arouet , Francois-Marie (Voltaire)		1797
1256	The Siege of Acre. An Epic Poem. In Six Books. By Mrs. Cowley.	Cowley , Hannah	John Debrett [179 Piccadilly] (London)	1801