Edmund Spenser
Virgil intended to write an epic poem 12 books long, which became known as the "Aeneid." It follows the legendary hero Aeneas as he journeys from Troy to Italy and chronicles the founding of Rome.
18 yrs
between 1921 and 1967
it depends on how long each book is and the time you out into it each day
Epic is a long narrative poem and mock epic is type of an epic about holding a person up to
Its an epic
Shakespeare only wrote two things which he intended to publish as a book: the long poems Venus and Adonis. He also wrote sonnets which he later decided to publish as a book. But the work for which he is most famous, his plays, were not written as books at all: they are meant to be watched, not read.
i think eight years
The word 'epic' means something that is very long or extended, such as a lengthy poem or story. Because an epic is something long, there is no such thing as a one page epic.
It took her 17 years to write the entire series.
"Epic", with respect to literature is usually: 1. very long 2. concerning heroic deeds 3. based in the mythology of a particular culture. Metamorphoses is all three of these; fifteen books long, detailing the heroic stories of Greek and Roman mythology.
Nelson Mandela wrote two books: "Long Walk to Freedom" and "Conversations with Myself."
Since everything Shakespeare wrote has at some time or another been published in book form, from one perspective he certainly did write books. Indeed he intended some of it, especially his long poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece to be published in book form.What you mean possibly is: "Why did William Shakespeare not write novels?" The reason is that novels were at that time a new form of writing that was rare and not fully developed. There was no money in them. Plays on the other hand were what Shakespeare was paid to write.