List of epic poems
This list can be compared with two others,
national epic
and
list of world folk-epics
.
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The first page of the
Beowulf
manuscript, 8th to 10th century.
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This is a list of
epic poems
.
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According to that article, world folk epics are those that are not just literary
masterpieces
, but also an integral part of the
world view
of a people, originally oral, later written down by one or several authors.