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

We have, indeed, no such single heroic poem, unless it be our chronicles.

From King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 2 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. by Ingemann, Bernhard Severin

Though the learned and classical author despised this work in comparison with his heroic poem on the Conception of the Virgin Mary, the public of the day thought differently.

From Rambles and Studies in Greece by Mahaffy, J. P.