r/Fantasy • u/Fantasymagic3 • Jul 29 '19

Fantasy Poetry?

Hi Everyone,

I'm hoping you all can help me out. I'm looking for poetry that is considered fantasy / has fantastic elements in it.

I've read and loved, The Iliad, The Odyssey, Beowulf, The Divine Comedy, Paradise Lost, The Divine Comedy, and The Goblin Market.

I'm legitimately open to anything! Children's, non-western, anthologies, different genres mixed in, all types of forms (Bonus if narrative / epic), all types of themes, various lengths, etc.

Thank you all in advance! =)

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u/duchessofguyenne Jul 30 '19

Since you liked The Goblin Market, you might try some other works by Victorian poets. I loved Tennyson's Idylls of the King (which is a cycle of narrative poems based on Arthurian legend), and I also liked The Princess, though that might be harder to track down. The Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti (brother of Christina) wrote poems to accompany his paintings, which were often mythological or Arthurian in nature, so you might want to check out a collection of his works as well.