John Milton

John Milton

male, deceased (1674)
blind, Christian heresy, from the City of London, Sonneteers, Old Pauline, New Latin author…Epicpoetry, epic poem
John Milton (December 9, 1608 - November 8, 1674) was an English poet, prose polemicist, and civil servant for the English Commonwealth. Most famed...
Robert Fagles

Robert Fagles

male, 76 years old (Princeton, New Jersey, United States)
Yale University, academia, Master's Degree, English, Assistant Professor, Doctor of Philosophy…Epicpoetry, Poetry of the United States, epic poems
Robert Fagles (born September 11, 1933) is an American professor, poet, and academic, best known for his many translations of ancient Greek...
Milman Parry

Milman Parry

male, deceased (1935)
University of Paris, bosnia and herzegovina, Classical scholar, sorbonne, odyssey, Bosnia…Epic poetry collector, Epicpoetry
Milman Parry (1902 -December 31935) was a scholar of epic poetry and the founder of the discipline of oral tradition. He studied at the University...

Callimachus

male
Pederastic poetry, Pederasty in ancient Greece, poet, Pinakes, Ptolemy II, Epicpoetry…epic
Callimachus (Greek: ; ca. 305 BC- ca. 240 BC) was a native of Cyrene and claimed to be a descendant of Battus. He was a noted poet, critic, and...
Apollonius Of Rhodes

Apollonius Of Rhodes

male
Alexandria, Scholar, library, 3rd century BC, Argonautica, Librarian of Alexandria…Epicpoetry, epic poet
Apollonius of Rhodes, also known as Apollonius Rhodius, early 3rd century BC - after 246 BC, was an epic poet, scholar, and director of the Library...
Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison

female, 78 years old (Princeton, New Jersey, United States)
nobel prize in literature, Nobel Prize, From Houston, English, From Lorain, Ohio, Princeton University…Epicpoetry, epic
Toni Morrison (born Chloe Anthony Wofford on February 18 1931), is a Nobel Prize-winning American author, editor, and professor. Her novels are...

Albert Lord

male, deceased (1991)
Harvard University, bosnian, Academic, homer, Harvard, composition…epic, Epic poetry collector, Epicpoetry
Albert Bates Lord (1912-1991) was a Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature at Harvard University who, after the untimely death of Milman...

Odysseus

male
Sysiphus, ulysses, greek mythology, Etruscan hero, Arcesius, Greek mythological…Epicpoetry, epic poem
Odysseus or Ulysses, pronounced, is the main hero in Homer's epic poem, the "Odyssey", and plays a key role in Homer's "Iliad". King of Ithaca,...
Robinson Jeffers

Robinson Jeffers

male, deceased (1962)
Occidental College alumni, narrative, environmentalism, Epicpoetry, environmental, John Robinson Jeffers…epic
John Robinson Jeffers (January 10 1887-January 20 1962) was an American poet, known for his work about the central California coast. Most of...
Ludovico Ariosto

Ludovico Ariosto

male, deceased (1533)
Italian Renaissance writer, Italian Renaissance humanist, Ancient Greek literature, greek, Latin literature, reggio emilia…epic poem, Epicpoetry
Ludovico Ariosto was an Italian poet, author of the epic poem "Orlando furioso" (1516), "Orlando Enraged". He was born at Reggio, in Emilia, where...