heroic poem

But, after all these advantages, an heroic poem is certainly the greatest work of human nature.

As for Mr Milton, whom we all admire with so much justice, his subject is not that of an heroic poem, properly so called.

Milton said: "He who would write heroic poems, must make his whole life an heroic poem."

It is requisite that the language of an heroic poem should be both perspicuous and sublime.

Argonautica: a heroic poem on the Argonautic expedition, by Apollonius Rhodius.