You certainly shouldn't read all of them at once,your brain will explode.
Dante's Inferno is worth reading, the other two parts of The Divine Comedy not so much. Paradise Lost I've only read fragments of but liked what i read. I didn't even know Kafka wrote an epic.
edited 27th May '13 5:31:55 PM by tricksterson
Trump delenda estWhat you should do is go to the Gutenberg Project
and read a few pages of each to see how you like them.
The Inferno has a lot of current references that most people don't know today, I certainly don't. It's worth finding a good annotated version if you like it at all, so that you'll understand why certain punishments fit the sins committed. There are multiple translations of the Inferno, and I don't know which is best, but you can probably find opinions on the Internet, maybe even some reasonable ones if you work at it.
You don't need to worry about translations for Paradise Lost of course. I haven't read more than bits and pieces of it, but my impression is that it doesn't refer to events and persons of it's time, so you probably don't need too much background as long as you have some idea of the Christian mythos.
edited 28th May '13 7:34:12 AM by Lightningnettle

I am thinking about reading the epics of Dante, Kafka and Milton but I have some reservations. I don't any thing about these poems except from I gather from the wiki and this very site, I want to read the poems but I am not too sure about them. What should I know about them? Should I read these epics?
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