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Meanings of epic poetry in English
Portuguese
épica Spanish
poesía épica Usage of epic poetry in English
1
The moderns are inferior to the ancients in epic poetry and tragedy.
2
Milton thinks he might have surpassed Virgil, had he attempted epic poetry.
3
The Italians, even in their epic poetry, are full of it.
4
The same or still better principles permeate the Welsh epic poetry and triads.
5
As Quintilian says, he sustained the weight of epic poetry with the lyre.
6
The best Latin epic poetry is the feeble echo of the Iliad and Odyssey.
7
This is not the epic poetry of the heroic ages.
8
It certainly proves that even epic poetry tried to describe Nature for her own sake:
9
The Greeks possessed two large collections of epic poetry.
10
The success of epic poetry depends on the author's power of imagining and representing characters.
11
You were a genius then, and wrote epic poetry.
12
Lyric poetry has something childlike about it, dramatic poetry something manly, epic poetry something senile.
13
The spirit of epic poetry, as we recognise it in its father, Homer, is clear self-possession.
14
Like epic poetry, boxing is a dead art.
15
The fate of epic poetry was the same as that of the primitive German forms of society.
16
In epic poetry the Romans accomplished more, though even here they are still inferior to the Greeks.
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Epic poetry through the time
Epic poetry across language varieties
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