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 is generally believed that this is the name of another lost heroic poem.

From Stories and Ballads of the Far Past Translated from the Norse (Icelandic and Faroese) with Introductions and Notes by Kershaw, Nora

Minturno, it will be remembered, was the first to limit the action of the heroic poem to 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 Spingarn, Joel Elias