Mr Armitage could have turned Homer into something unrecognisable as epic poetry, something that was almost too much in love with the vernacular.

ECONOMIST: Homer

Over the centuries, as the ethnic balance shifted in favour of Albanians, Kosovo came to represent a golden age in the Serbian national imagination, embodied in epic poetry.

BBC: Kosovo profile

It fails to grasp how easily epic poetry is reproduced in the form of multi-volume paperbacks, and how easily those paperbacks in turn are converted into highly watchable films and television shows.

FORBES: Homer's Revenge: Epic Poetry Is Back. It's Viral. And It's Worth Billions

The main thesis of this book is that Milton is similarly changeless, and that one set of notions runs through all of his works, from lyrics composed in the 1630s to his epic poetry of the 1660s.

ECONOMIST: Literary criticism