| HIAWATHA | The Song Of ........, epic poem from 1855 by Henry Longfellow (8) |
| PAUL | Folk hero of the American Revolution, immortalised in a ballad by Henry Longfellow (4,6) |
| REVERE | Folk hero of the American Revolution, immortalised in a ballad by Henry Longfellow (4,6) |
| ODYSSEUS | Legendary Greek king of Ithaca, hero of epic poem by Homer (8) |
| ELECTRIC | I Sing the Body -; one of the poems from Walt Whitman's collection Leaves of Grass (8) |
| PASTORAL | A poem from the old days, by Goldman (8) |
| RHODESIA | Hair wrapped round poems from the old country (8) |
| QUARTETS | Collection of long poems from T S Eliot's later period (4,8) |
| ELCID | Hero of a Spanish epic poem from the 12th century (2,3) |
| LIMERICK | Poem from Irish city (8) |
| CLERIHEW | Poem from minister shortly cut (8) |
| THERAVEN | Macabre poem from another Avengers feature (3,5) |
| TRIOLETS | Poems from list 27 makes (8) |
| ILIAD | Epic poem from Virgil I admire (5) |
| VAASA | Finnish city on the Gulf of Bothnia known from 1855 to 1917 as Nikolainkaupunki (5) |
| OSSIAN | Narrator of a cycle of epic poems by James Macpherson |
| VICTORHUGO | Les Miserables novelist who was exiled from France from 1855 to 1870: 2 wds. |
| TASSO | Torquato ?, 16th-century Italian author of epic poem Jerusalem Delivered (5) |
| ENNIUS | Quintus -, Roman author of epic poem Annales who died in 169 BC (6) |
| ARIOSTO | Ludovico ?, Italian author of epic poem Orlando Furioso and play I Suppositi |
