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

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 Dunlop, John

This was his immortal heroic poem, Peder Paars, which appeared in the autumn of 1719, and which marks nothing less than a new era in Norwegian and Danish literature.

From Ludvig Holberg, The Founder of Norwegian Literature and an Oxford Student by Hammer, Simon Christian