Dec 19, 2009

Peer Gynt | What Do I Read Next?

Henrick Ibsen's Brand (1866), written the year before Peer Gynt, is also written in epic verse. Brand is the first of Ibsen's works to achieve both critical and popular attention. This work explores the inhumanity of uncompromising idealism.

Edmund Spenser's The Fairie Queene (1590) is an early verse epic that includes allegorical characters and a fairytale-like motif to explore the meaning of truth.

Orlando Furioso (1532), by Ariosto, is a verse epic that includes love, war, and honor and focuses on man's responsibility to fulfill his...