heroic poem

American  

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of heroic poem

First recorded in 1685–95

Example Sentences

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heroic poem

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

One gets a thrill of heroic emotion when he views its hardy walls for the first time: "a mountain of stone, a heroic poem of Gothic art," it has with reason been called.

From Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)

In the first place, the subject of the heroic poem must be historical, for it is not probable that illustrious actions such as are dealt with in the epic should be unknown to history.

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

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