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     This is essentially a sub-index of those works of Poetry that are book-length works of narrative verse, fiction and non.
     This index is divided into two loose categories, roughly separating modern (nineteenth century and later) and classical works; while 'novel in verse' is my preferred genre and term for contemporary works, not all are, strictly speaking, novels:
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Novels in verse/modern epics

Classical epics

Novels in verse/modern epics

AXELSSON, Linnea: Ædnan (B)
BOBE, T.O.: Curl (B)
BREYTENBACH, Breyten: Voice Over (A-)
DIB, Mohammed: L.A. Trip (B)
DURCAN, Paul: Christmas Day (B+)
GAUDÉ, Laurent: Our Europe (B)
HILL, Geoffrey: The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Péguy (B+)
HØEG, Tine: New Passengers (B+)
JONES, David:
- The Anathemata (A-)
- In Parenthesis (A)
KEATING, H.R.F.: Jack, the Lady Killer (C+)
KUNENE, Mazisi: Emperor Shaka the Great (B+)
LEITHAUSER, Brad: Darlington's Fall (A-)
LIGHTMAN, Alan: Song of Two Worlds (B)
MARTINSON, Harry: Aniara (B)
MAXWELL, Glyn: Time's Fool (B+)
MULDOON, Paul: Madoc (A-)
MURRAY, Les:
- See the complete review's Les Murray page
- The Boys who Stole the Funeral (B+)
- Fredy Neptune (A)
NAUM, Gellu: My Tired Father (B-)
NGUGI wa Thiong'o: The Perfect Nine (B+)
OZ, Amos: The Same Sea (A)
PADEL, Ruth: Darwin (B+)
p'BITEK, Okot:
- The Defence of Lawino (B) (tr. Taban lo Liyong)
- Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol (B+)
PORTER, Dorothy: Akhenaten (B)
RANSMAYR, Christoph: The Flying Mountain (A-)
RYBAKOVA, Maria: Gnedich (B+)
SINCLAIR, Iain:
- See the complete review's Iain Sinclair page
- Lud Heat (B-)
- Suicide Bridge (B)
TAVARES, Gonçalo M.: A Voyage to India (B+)
WEISS, Daniel Evan: Honk if you love Aphrodite (A-)

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Classical epics

BHARATCHANDRA Ray: In Praise of Annada (B)
BHARAVI: Arjuna and the Hunter (A-)
BUDHASVĀMIN: The Emperor of the Sorcerers (B+)
CAMÕES, Luís Vaz de: The Lusíads (B+)
GORGANI, Fakhraddin: Vis and Ramin (A-)
KALIDASA:
- The Birth of Kumára (B+)
- Meghaduta:
  - as The Cloud-Messenger (trans. Arthur W. Ryder) (B)
  - as The Cloud Messenger (trans. F. and E.Edgerton) (B)
  - as The Transport of Love (trans. Leonard Nathan) (B)
KRASICKI, Ignacy: The Mouseiad (B+) - and other Mock Epics
MAGHA: The Killing of Shishupala (B+)
MIR: Zikr-i Mir (B-)
NGUYỄN Du: The Song of Kiều (A-)
NIZAMI:
- Haft Paykar (B)
- Layli and Majnun (B)
- Sikandar Nama, e bara (A-)
OROZBAQ UULU, Saghïmbay: The Memorial Feast for Kökötöy Khan (B)
PEDDANA, Allasani: The Story of Manu (B+)
QUINTUS Smyrnaeus: Posthomerica (B+)
RAGHAVANKA: The Life of Harishchandra (B+)
TASSO, Torquato:
- Jerusalem Delivered (trans.: Edward Fairfax) (A-)
- Jerusalem Delivered (trans.: Anthony M. Esolen) (B+)
TZETZES, John: Allegories of the Iliad (-)

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