epopee

American  

[ep-uh-pee, ep-uh-pee] / ˈɛp əˌpi, ˌɛp əˈpi /

Also epopoeia

noun

1. an epic.

2. epic poetry.

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epopee British  

/ ˈɛpəʊˌpiː, epɔpe, ˌɛpəˈpiːə /

noun

1. an epic poem

2. epic poetry in general

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Etymology

Origin of epopee

1690–1700; < French épopée < Greek epopoiía, equivalent to épo ( s ) epos + poi ( eîn ) to make + -ia -ia

Example Sentences

There likewise tragedy will be seen to borrow from the epopee; and that which borrows is always of less dignity, because it has not of its own.

From Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry by Dryden, John

ARIOSTO.—Ariosto wrote Orlando Furioso, which is not the epic in parody, as has been too often observed, but the gay and joyous epopee of Orlando and his companions.

From Initiation into Literature by Gordon, Home, Sir, Bart.

It was a favorite thesis of Fielding, often repeated by his successors, that the novel is a sort of comic epopee.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 by Various

GOGOL.—Russian taste was already veering to the epic novel or epopee in prose, of which Gogol was the most illustrious representative until Tolstoy.

From Initiation into Literature by Gordon, Home, Sir, Bart.

Herder calls the "Messiah" a Christian epopee, in musical sounds.

From For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music by Moore, Aubertine Woodward