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Heroic poem   /hɪrˈoʊɪk pˈoʊəm/   Listen
Heroic poem

noun
1.
A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds.  Synonyms: epic, epic poem, epos.






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"Heroic poem" Quotes from Famous Books



... attributed to Homer consist of the two epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, of twenty-four books each, the Batrachomyomachia, or "Battle of the Frogs and Mice," a humorous, mock-heroic poem, and somewhat of a parody on the Iliad; the Margites, a satirical, personal satire, and about thirty Hymns. All of these but the two great epics are now, however, ...
— Museum of Antiquity - A Description of Ancient Life • L. W. Yaggy

... intellectual introversion we are very much inclined to attribute Mr. Coleridge's never having seriously undertaken a great heroic poem. The "Paradise Lost" may be thought to stand in the way of our laying down any general rule on the subject; yet that poem is as peculiar as Milton himself, and does not materially affect our opinion, that the pure epic ...
— Famous Reviews • Editor: R. Brimley Johnson



Words linked to "Heroic poem" :   odyssey, poem, chanson de geste, heroic, rhapsody, Divina Commedia, heroic verse, Iliad, verse form, heroic meter, Divine Comedy, Nibelungenlied, Aeneid



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