Date: 17 October 2007 12:37 pm (UTC)
One could consider Elizabeth Barrett Browning's 1856 verse novel Aurora Leigh an epic poem.

(No, I didn't know the date of publication off the top of my head. Yes, I did remember this poem's existence from a paper I wrote in middle school! ha ha!)

It's also true that some early examples of the novel in English were written by men, but they share all the characteristics of "chic lit"--I'm thinking of Richardson's Pamela, for example. It's hard to think of an early novel written by men for men. Hmmm. Maybe Tristram Shandy?
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