History Main / NarrativePoem

* ''[[ErlKing Erlkönig]]'' by JohannWolfgangVonGoethe.

* ''{{Batrachomyomachia}}'', a mock-heroic epic poem, i.e. parody of the traditional epic.

* ''TheSongOfRoland,'' an account of how the title character was betrayed at Roncesvalles.

* ''TamLin'', a ChildBallad

* SamuelTaylorColeridge's ''TheRimeOfTheAncientMariner''

* ''{{Nibelungenlied}}''

* Samuel Taylor Coleridge's ''{{Rime of the Ancient Mariner}}''

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* ''EnumaElish'' -- Babylonian creation myth.

See also RockOpera.

* ''TamLin'', ChildBallad

* ''{{Batrachomyomachia}}'', a mock-heroic epic, i.e. parody of the traditional epic.

* ''The Raven'' by EdgarAllanPoe.

* A shorter narrative poems that uses stanzas is a ballad (especially if it is set to music)

* ''TainBoCuailgne'' of [[CelticMythology Irish heroic legend]].

* ''Nibelungenlied''

See also RockOpera

Examples:
* Robert Browning's ''Childe Rowland to the Dark Tower Came'', upon which StephenKing's ''TheDarkTower'' series is based.
* John Milton's ''ParadiseLost'' is one long poem
* So is ''{{Beowulf}}'' (the original, not [[{{Film/Beowulf}} the recent movie]])
** [[FridgeLogic How the hell do you turn a movie into a poem?]]
*** By making a {{Novelization}} that rhymes.
*** Prose translations of it exists.
* ''Literature/TheIliad'' and ''Literature/TheOdyssey'' by Homer
* The rest of TheTrojanCycle, authors uncertain
* EdgarAllanPoe's ''The Raven''
* LordByron's ''Don Juan''
* Samuel Taylor Coleridge's ''{{Rime of the Ancient Mariner}}'' and ''Kubla Khan''
* JohnKeats' ''La Belle Dame sans Merci'' and his unfinished ''The Fall of Hyperion''

* LewisCarroll's ''The Hunting of the Snark''
* {{JRR Tolkien}} wrote quite a few: two long epic poems of tales from the ''Quenta Silmarillion'' (The Lay of Leithian and The Lay of the Children of Húrin, respectively), as well as countless shorter ones appearing in his works (e.g. ''Earendil'' from ''TheLordOfTheRings'').
** He also translated the Middle English ''Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.''
* ''The Adventures And Brave Deeds Of The Ships Cat On The Spanish Maine: Together With The Most Lamentable Losse Of The Alcestis and Triumphant Firing of the Port of Chagres'' by Richard Adams
* ''The Book Of The Duchess'' by Geoffrey Chaucer
* ''The Canterbury Tales'' by Geoffrey Chaucer
* ''The Charge Of The Light Brigade'' by Lord Alfred Tennyson
* ''Crossing America'' by Leo Connellan
* ''The DivineComedy'' by Dante
* The Elder Edda
* ''TheKalevala'' (the Finnish national epic)
* ''Os Lusíadas'' by Luis Vaz de Camões
* ''TheFaerieQueene'' by Edmund Spenser
* ''Literature/TheAeneid'' by Virgil

* ''Pan Tadeusz'' by Adam Mickiewicz
* ''Piers Plowman'' by William Langland
* ''The Rape Of Lucrece'' and ''Venus and Adonis'' by WilliamShakespeare
* The Homeric Hymns
* ''The Song of Hiawatha'' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
* ''Evangeline'', also by Longfellow
* ''TamLin''
* ''Tam o' Shanter'', by Robert Burns
* ''The Truant'' by E.J. Pratt
* ''Terje Vigen'' by Henrik Ibsen
* ''The Highwayman'' by Alfred Noyes
* ''The Ballad of Mulan''
* ''CaseyAtTheBat'' by Ernest Thayer.
* ''TheMetamorphoses'' by {{Ovid}}

* ''{{Zorgamazoo}}'', a modern novel written entirely in rhyme by Robert Paul Weston.
* ''{{The Golden Gate}}'', a modern novel written in Pushkin sonnets by Vikram Seth.
* ''{{Eugene Onegin}}'', a Russian novel by AlexanderPushkin
* ''{{The Sonneteer}}'', an experimental blog-verse narrative by TJ Radcliffe

* ''The Poem of The Cid,'' the exile and redemption of El Cid Compeador, (very) loosely based on his real exploits.
* ''The Shooting of Dan McGrew'' and ''The Cremation of Sam McGee'', both by Robert W. Service.

* ''The Rape of the Lock'' by Alexander Pope.

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* ''TheIliad'' and ''Literature/TheOdyssey'' by Homer

* ''{{The Iliad}}'' and ''{{The Odyssey}}'' by Homer

* ''TheAeneid'' by Virgil

* ''TheKalevala'' (the Finish national epic)

* ''{{Eugene Onegin}}'', a Russian novel by Alexander Pushkin

** [[RomeoAndJuliet Romeo and Juliet]] as well. It's *supposed* to be read like a poem. Sadly, most people are either too lazy, ignorant, or uninterested to do so.