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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

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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
22444	The dunciad, in four books. Printed according to the complete copy found in the year 1742. With the prolegomena of Scriblerus, and notes variorum. To which are added, several notes now first publish'd, the hypercritics of Aristarchus, and his dissertation on the hero of the poem.	Pope , Alexander	Mary Cooper [The Globe] (London)	1743
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