Timeline of great english epics

1300s

• Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
• Trollius and Cressida by Geoffrey Chaucer

1400s

• A Little Jest of Robin Hood by Anonymous
• Troy Book by John Lydgate
• The Siege of Thebes by John Lydgate

1500s

• The Iliad by George Chapman
• The Odyssey by George Chapman
• Hero and Leander by Christopher Marlowe and George Chapman
• The Actes of the Apostles by Christopher Tye
• The Metamorphoses by Arthur Golding
• Albion’s England by William Warner
• The Aeneid by Thomas Twyne
• Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare
• Endimion and Phoebe by Michael Drayton

1600s

• The Abduction of Proserpina by Leonard Digges
• Paradise Lost by John Milton
• Paradise Regained by John Milton
• The Davideis by Thomas Ellwood
• Lucan’s Civil War by Thomas May
• Supplement to Lucan by Thomas May
• The Life of Christ by Samuel Wesley

1700s

• Leonidas by Richard Glover
• The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope
• The Dunciad by Alexander Pope
• The History of Joseph by Elizabeth Singer Rowe
• The Epigoniad by William Wilkie
• The Messiah by Mary Collyer
• The Thebaid by Lillington Lewis
• The Lusiad by William Mickle
• Jerusalem Delivered by John Hoole
• Orlando the Furious by John Hoole

1800s

• Reynard the Fox by D.W. Soltau
• The World Before the Flood by James Montgomery
• The Lay of the Last Minstrel by Sir Walter Scott
• The Earthly Paradise by William Morris
• The Life and Death of Jason by William Morris
• Idylls of the King by Lord Alfred Tennyson
• The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• The Wanderings of Oisin by William Butler Yeats
• Israel in Egypt by Edwin Atherstone
• Reineke Fox by Alexander Rogers
• Parzival by Jessie Weston

1900s

• The Dauber by John Masefield
• The Ghost Heath Run by John Masefield
• The Ballad of the White Horse by G.K. Chesterton
• Tristram by Edwin Arlington Robinson
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Fall of Arthur by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Lay of Leithian by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Lay of the Children of Húrin by J.R.R. Tolkien