American Epic
- Day of Doom Wigglesworth's Puritan epic, the most popular book in America for years. Links to other poems, Bay Psalm Book, things Puritan
- Poetry of Michael Wigglesworth More information on Wigglesworth, things Puritan. Even a Providential Puritan Quotation generator
- The Columbiad Joel Barlow's massive American epic
- The Columbiad, Archibald Tucker Ritchie's later (1843), even less focused epic.
- Columbus in Romance, an 1892 essay the Magazine of American history, describes some of the wealth of Columbian epics, both American and European
- The Sot-Weed Factor Not John Barth's novel, but the real Ebenezer Cook and his wonderful hudibrastic satire
- Poet Pages - Dante, Longfellow, and Pinsky Brief Atlantic Monthly comments on these translations of Dante
- Folding Cliffs : A Narrative An Amazon sales site, but has useful commentary on W. S. Merwin's recent epic
- Native American Creation Stories: Contents Part of World Civilizations site, gives significant parts of Tlingit, Zuni, Iroquois, and Alsea narratives
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A biographical essay
- American Epic. A summer course in American epic (mine). Provides an adapted version of James Miller's list of American epics and long poems.
- Top Ten American Epic Poems of the 20th Century from About.com
- And Five More from About.com
- The American Epic-A Minor Field Rationale and short reading list
- Spoon River Anthology: The Definitive Online Edition of Edgar Lee Masters' 1915 classic
- Librivox Recordings of Spoon River in multiple formats
- Penn State's 6x9 pdf of Spoon River
- Lois Teal Hartley's 1963 commentary on Masters' achievements, Spoon River Revisited
- Hart Crane Modest site with some helpful notes on The Bridge
- That Gentle Epic: Writing and Elegy in Cecilia Meireles - MLN 112:2 Leopoldo Bernucci's substantial essay on the Brazilian epic poet of Romanceiro da Inconfidência [1953] and Crônica Trovada da Cidade de Sam Sebastiam do Rio de Janeiro (1965).
- H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) Home Page A nice clear page with numerous and useful H. D. links