Fantasy Poetry

Beowulf, the Faerie Queene, the Odyssey.
Fantasy poetry is patrician af

>>8609564
I meant more modern stuff (Metamorphoses is my favorite)

>>8609570
Good taste, Ovid is the shit. Hmm would something like Maldoror count?

In Xanadu did Kublai Khan

Jabberwocky?

>>8609545
Tolkien wrote two ‘lays’, i.e., attempts at epic poems such as Beowulf and those of Homer, and some early poems, which later became parts of the Silmarillion. Doesn't get much more fantasy than that.

First stanza of The Lay of the Children of Húrin

Lo! the golden dragon of the God of Hell,
the gloom of the woods of the world now gone,
the woes of Men, and weeping of Elves
fading faintly down forest pathways,
is now to tell, and the name most tearful
of Níniel the sorrowful, and the name most sad
of Thalion’s son Túrin o’erthrown by fate.


First stanza of The Lay of the Leithian

A king there was in days of old:
ere Men yet walked upon the mould
his power was reared in cavern’s shade,
his hand was over glen and glade.
His shields were shining as the moon,
his lances keen of steel were hewn,
of silver grey his crown was wrought,
the starlight in his banners caught;
and silver thrilled his trumpets long
beneath the stars in challenge strong;
enchancement did his realm enfold,
where might and glory, wealth untold,
he wielded from his ivory throne
in many-pillared halls of stone.
There beryl, pearl, and opal pale,
and metal wrought like fishes’ mail,
bucklet and corslet, axe and sword,
and gleaming spears were laid in hoard—
all these he had and loved them less
than a maiden once in Elfinesse;
for fairer than are born to Men,
a daugher had he, Lúthien.

Have you ever heard of Tolkien?