heroic poem
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I guess the compactness of it pleased people and also the absurdity of the collision — Old English heroic poem meets tiny aspirin tablets.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 11, 2012
The Unforgiven is designed and executed as a heroic poem, a sort of cow-country Cid.
From Time Magazine Archive
The warriors of the great Latin heroic poem, the Aeneid, far from rejoicing to escape from him, rejoice when they see that they are to fall “on Mars’ field of renown.”
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
The passage has already been cited in which he speaks of the heroic poem as entirely of a martial character, and limits its action to the space of one year.
From A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism by Joel Elias Spingarn
It perhaps matters little whether the ground-work of a heroic poem be historical or entirely fictitious, if free scope be given for the excursions of fancy.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by John Dunlop
