epical

The Celtic nations stand almost alone in this, that they did not employ poetry for epical narrative.

In these careful discriminations of character we see a non-epical trait, and of necessity therefore, a non-Icelandic trait.

This poem has often been called an epic, and certainly there are many epical characteristics in it.

In King John the lyrical, epical, satirical and pathetic chords are all present, if they are scarcely harmonized.

This is to say that Draytons genius was naturally not so much epical as lyrical and descriptive.