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- Therese von Artner A fragment (d'Espagne's Tod) in German from her epic Die Schlacht bei Aspern, most of which appears to have been lost
- Sarah Fuller Flower Adams' 1841 Vivia Perpetua, a dramatic poem on the early Christian martyrs
- A selection from Claribel Alegria, including bits of Luisa en el País de la Realidad. More information on her (in English) is available from Curbstone Press
- A brief essay on Betti Alver, the Estonian "mother of song," and author of Lugu valgest varesest or Tale of the White Crow, 1931
- An introduction and some of the Poems of Ava, the 12th century German poet, in Andrew Thornton's translation at Google Books. Other Women's Voices provides a very brief description and links
- Ted Genoways reviews recent epic poetry, including Ellen Bryant Voigt's elegant Kyrie
- Gabrielle de Coignard The sixteenth century writer of Imitation de la victoire de judich
- The Descent of Ishtar to the Underworld In Stephanie Dalley's fine translation (at Google Books)
- Kumulipo including not only Queen Liliokulani's 1897 translation of the epic Hawaiian Creation chant, but links to the Hawaiian version as well as Beckwith's 1951 translation
- An Idyl of Work, Lucy Larcom's 1875 epic of the New England textile mills
- Mabinogion Gutenberg etext of Lady Charlotte Guest's/Schreiber's famous translation
- Lucrezia Marinella Another powerful femininist writer of epic in early Modern Italy, best known for her Nobility and Excellence of Women
- Lucrezia Marinella's L'Enrico, somewhat inconveniently set up for reading, but there for my Italian readers.
- The Explorers Catherine Martin's 19th century Australian epic. A bit of it, with more context, is also given here
- E. M. Souville, "An Epic" Actually a shorter poem written for the Columbian Expo in 1892
- Isabella Valancy Crawford, Malcolm's Katie (193-245 in Collected Poems, 1905).
- Marjorie
Perloff on Loy's Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose
- Mary
Tighe's Psyche Finally someone has brought an edition
on-line
- Medieval
Women The section of Labyrinth devoted specifically to women's
lives and works
- The Blind Chatelaine comments on Samuel Butler's Authoress of the Odyssey and on Dalby's Rediscovering Homer
- Poetry
of Anna Seward Called the "inventress of epic elegy" for
her poems on Major Andre and others
- Aiken
and Hemans Beth Seltzer's brief discussion of the recontextualization
of women's experience
- The
Victorian Women Writers Project The substantial and searchable collection,
including the redoubtable Mathilde Blind.
- Sappho
Page Teaching materials for Sappho
- Welcome
to the Isle of Lesbos A place of art, culture, and learning for
women-oriented women, including a wealth of women poets.
- Poetry
of Gertrude Stein
- Entire
WWP Corpus: Table of Contents The grand Women Writer's Project
at Brown University.
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