* The epic poem "Beowulf" by the Anglo-Saxon poet Cædmon
* The "Canterbury Tales" by the English poet Geoffrey Chaucer
* The "Kalevala" by the Finnish poet Elias Lönnrot
* The "Nibelungenlied" by the German poet an unknown author
* The "Odyssey" and the "Iliad" by the ancient Greek poet Homer
* The "Shahnameh" by the Persian poet Ferdowsi
* The "Ramayana" and the "Mahabharata" by the Indian poets Valmiki and Vyasa
* The "Song of Hiawatha" by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
* The "Divine Comedy" by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri
* The "Faust" by the German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe