Series I
- Herman Melville, Clarel, 1876
- T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land, 1922
- Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire, 1962
- James Merrill, The Changing Light of Sandover, 1976-80
Series II
- Wallace Stevens, Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction, 1942
- Charles Olson, The Maximus Poems, 1953
- William Carlos Williams, Paterson, 1958
- Theodore Roethke, The Far Field, 1964
Big List
Jeremy M. Downes, “American Epic”, https://web.archive.org/web/20220305154357/http://webhome.auburn.edu/~downejm/ameplist.html