1. Bibliography on Gilgamesh
 

Strictly "literary" studies of Gilgameshare unfortunately few and far between; most concentrate instead on Sumerian, Babylonian, Akkadian, Assyrian and other Semitic parallels, and in particular on the relation between Gilgameshand the Old Testament account of the Flood.  The following short bibliography reflects that bias. See also the listings and links at http://www.hist.unt.edu/ane-09.htm#Bibliography.
 

2. Bibliography on Homer

The bibliography on Homer is enormous, reflecting how central the texts of the Iliadand Odysseyhave been to Western thought for more than two millennia. The following list barely scratches the surface. I have confined myself to general books, not articles; and I have not separated books on the Iliadfrom those on the Odyssey.For more extensive bibliography, see the links at http://www.dc.peachnet.edu/~shale/humanities/literature/world_literature/homer.html

N. Austin, Archery at the Dark of the Moon: Poetic Problems in Homer's Odyssey(Berkeley 1975)
M. Bowra, Tradition and Design in the Iliad (London 1930)
R. Carpenter, Folktale, Fiction, and Saga in the Homeric Epics (Berkeley 1962)
H. Clarke, Homer's Readers: A Historical Introduction to the Iliad and the Odyssey (Newark 1981)
K. Dickson, Nestor: Poetic Memoryin Greek Epic(Garland 1995)
M. Edwards, Homer: Poet of the Iliad (Baltimore 1987)
J. Finley, Homer's Odyssey (Cambridge MA 1987)
R. Finnegan, Oral Poetry (Cambridge 1977)
J. Foley, The Theory of Oral Composition (Bloomington 1988)
D. Frame, The Myth of Return in Early Greek Epic (New Haven 1978)
J. Griffin, Homer on Life and Death (Oxford 1980)
J. Hainsworth, The Idea of Epic (Berkeley 1991)
G. Huxley, Greek Epic Poetry, from Eumelos to Panyassis (Cambridge 1969)
K. King, Achilles: Paradigms of the War Hero from Homer to the Middle Ages (Berkeley 1987)
G. Kirk, The Songs of Homer (Cambridge 1962)
R. Lamberton and J. Keaney (eds.), Homer's Ancient Readers: The Hermeneutics of Greek Epic's Earliest Exegetes (New Haven 1992)
A. Lord, The Singer of Tales (Cambridge MA 1960)
R. Martin, The Language of Heroes: Speech and Performance in the Iliad (Ithaca 1989)
P. Merchant, The Epic (London 1971)
M. Nagler, Spontaneity and Tradition: A Study in the Oral Art of Homer (Berkeley 1974)
G. Nagy, The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry (Baltimore 1979)
J. Newman, The Classical Epic Tradition (Madison 1986)
T. van Nortwick, Somewhere I have Never Travelled (Cambridge 1991).
M. Parry, The Making of Homeric Verse: The Collected Papers of Millman Parry (Oxford 1971)
J. Peradotto, Man in the Middle Voice: Naming and Narration in the Odyssey (New Haven 1990)
B. Powell and I. Morris (eds.), A New Companion to Homer (Leiden 1996)
J. Redfield, Nature and Culture in the Iliad (Chicago 1975)
S. Schein, The Mortal Hero (Berkeley 1984)
J. Shay, Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character (NY 1994)
W. Thalmann, Conventions of Form and Thought in Early Greek Epic Poetry (Baltimore 1984)
P. Toohey, Reading Epic: An Introduction to the Ancient Narratives (London 1992)
C. Whitman, Homer and the Heroic Tradition (Cambridge MA 1958)
 

3. Bibliography on Vergil

As with Homer, here too the size of the bibilography is daunting. Once again, I confine myself to general books. For more extensive bibliography, see the links at: http://www.dc.peachnet.edu/~shale/humanities/literature/world_literature/virgil.html http://web.missouri.edu/~clstuddh/Vergbib.html

F. Cairns, Vergil's Augustan Epic (Cambridge 1989)
W. Camps, An Introduction to Virgil's Aeneid (Oxford 1969)
W. Clausen, Virgil's Aeneid and the Tradition of Hellenistic Poetry (Berkeley 1987)
G. Conte, The Rhetoric of Imitation: Genre and Poetic Memory in Virgil and Other Latin Poets (Ithaca 1986)
D. Gillis, Eros and Death in the Aeneid (Rome 1983)
P. Hardie, Virgil's Aeneid: Cosmos and Imperium (Oxford 1986)
S. Harrison (ed.), Oxford Readings in Vergil's Aeneid (Oxford 1990)
W. Johnson, Darkness Visible (Berkeley 1976)
R. Lyne, Further Voices in Vergil's Aeneid (Oxford 1987)
C. Martindale, Virgil and His Influence (Bristol 1984)
B. Otis, Virgil: A Study in Civilized Language (Oxford 1964)
V. Pöschl, The Art of Virgil (Ann Arbor 1962)
M. Putnam, The Poetry of the Aeneid (Ithaca 1988)
-------------, Vergil's Aeneid: Interpretation and Influence (Chapel Hill 1995)
K. Quinn, Vergil's Aeneid: A Critical Description (London 1968)
G. Williams, Tradition and Originality in Roman Poetry (Oxford 1968)
--------------, Technique and Ideas in the Aeneid (New Haven 1983)
 

4. Bibliography on Beowulf

For more extensive references, see http://www.georgetown.edu/irvinemj/english016/biblio/beobib.html and http://www.lib.uconn.edu/Medieval/beowulf.html

A. Brodeur, The Art of Beowulf (Berkeley 1959)
R. Chambers, Beowulf: An Introduction to the Study of the Poem (Cambridge 1963)
R. Creed (ed.), Old English Poetry: Fifteen Essays (Providence 1967)
R. Fulk (ed.), Interpretations of Beowulf (Bloomington 1991)
M. Goldsmith, The Mode and Meaning of Beowulf (London 1970)
E. Irving, A Reading of Beowulf (New Haven 1968)
J. Ogilvy and D. Baker, Reading Beowulf (Norman 1983)
J.Opland, Anglo-Saxon Oral Poetry (New Haven 1980)
B. Raw, The Art and Background of Old English Poetry (London 1978)
K. Sisam, The Structure of Beowulf (Oxford 1965)
G. Smithers, The Making of Beowulf (Durham 1961)
E. Tillyard, The English Epic and Its Background (London 1954)
A. Watts, The Lyre and the Harp: A Comparative Reconsideration of Oral Tradition in Homer and Old English Epic Poetry (New Haven 1969)
W. Whallon, Formula, Character, and Context: Studies in Homeric, Old English, and Old Testament Poetry (Cambridge MA 1969)
D. Whitelock, The Audience of Beowulf (Oxford 1951)