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
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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
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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.
This was a heroic poem in praise of Gustavus Adolphus, the bulwark of Protestantism, and his splendid victory over Tilly and Pappenheim at Leipsic—that terrible vengeance for the fearful sacking of Magdeburg!
From Vondel's Lucifer by Vondel, Joost van den