a Famous english epics include the old English poem Beowulf, and, in the Renaissance, Spenser s faerie Queene and Miltons paradise lost there are also famous English translations of the classics. such as the homer translations by Chapman and Pope, and Dryden s translation of virgil. The verse form varies: Beowulf is written in traditional old English meters; Spenser uses his own Spenserian stanza: Milton uses blank verse, and Dryden and Pope use heroic couplets.◼ Famous English epics include the Old English poem Beowulf, and, in the Renaissance, Spenser's Faerie Queene and Milton's Paradise Lost; there are also famous English translations of the classics, such as the Homer translations by Chapman and Pope, and Dryden's translation of Virgil. The verse form varies: Beowulf is written in traditional Old English meters; Spenser uses his own Spenserian stanza; Milton uses blank verse; and Dryden and Pope use heroic couplets