heroic poem

noun

1. a poem written in an epic style using lines of iambic pentameter.

Word History and Origins

Origin of heroic poem¹

First recorded in 1685–95

Example Sentences

But, after all these advantages, an heroic poem is certainly the greatest work of human nature.

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As for Mr Milton, whom we all admire with so much justice, his subject is not that of an heroic poem, properly so called.

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Milton said: "He who would write heroic poems, must make his whole life an heroic poem."

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It is requisite that the language of an heroic poem should be both perspicuous and sublime.

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Argonautica: a heroic poem on the Argonautic expedition, by Apollonius Rhodius.

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