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Which poets wrote the best long poems, or longer poems?

The poems on this page are,


in the opinion of the editorial staff of The HyperTexts and other knowledgeable
contributors, among the best long poems in the English language. Or because the
term "long" is relative, perhaps we should say the best "longer" or "longish"
poems. We have not included poems of epic length like Beowulf, Pearl, Sir Gawain
and the Green Knight, Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Edmund Spenser's The
Faerie Queen, Shakespeare's verse plays, John Milton's Paradise Lost and Paradise
Regained, Lord Byron's Don Juan, John Keats' Endymion, William Carlos Williams'
Paterson, Ezra Pound's Cantos, Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, or translations of
Dante's Inferno, Virgil's Aeneid, and Homer's Odyssey and Iliad. Instead, we have
focused on longer poems that can easily be read in a single sitting.

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