Greatest Long Poems of all Time

[Maddalo]

Here's an essential list of some of the monumental epics that have shaped English Literature. Even I haven't read them all!

Homer's Iliad and Odyssesy

Virgil's Aeneid

Beowulf

Dante's Divine Comedy

Ariosto's Orlando Furioso

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

Spenser's Faerie Queene

Shakespeare's Hamlet (strictly a play, or a 'poem unlimited'?)

Milton's Paradise Lost

Pope's Rape of the Lock

Coleridge's Ancient Mariner

Byron's Don Juan

Keats' Hyperion

Wordsworth's Prelude

Wilde's Ballad of Reading Gaol

Eliot's The Waste Land

What will be next if anything, will another great Epic ever be written?

[Golyadkin]

The Double (Where my name came from) is a poem.
The full name is "The Double: A Petersburg Poem"

[Maddalo]

It's very difficult to get translations of poems in Russian, and other languages, so I must admit that I hadn't heard of that poem.

The only Russian poet I've read is Pushkin's 'verse novel' Eugene Onegin - very Byronic, satirical, tragical; and enjoyable.

Also check out a great movie made of the poem in 1999 starring Ralph Fiennes and the beautiful and very talented Liv Tyler. That's how I heard of it and was inspired to read it.

[Golyadkin]

You probably haven't heard of it as a poem because it's like 192 pages long.
Here's the e-text if you'd like to read it:
www.fyodordostoevky.com/etexts/the_double.txt