heroic poem
Example Sentences
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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
Epic, ep′ik, adj. applied to a poem which recounts a great event in an elevated style: lofty: grand.—n. an epic or heroic poem: a story comparable to those in epic poems.—ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
In large bold outlines, the whole story which he intended to glorify in a simple, heroic poem, stood out before his inward eye.
From Ekkehard. Vol. II (of II). A Tale of the Tenth Century by Scheffel, Joseph Victor von
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