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Meanings of epos in English

Portuguese
epopéia
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poema èpic
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epos
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A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds.

epopéia
Usage of epos in English
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The epos is the calm quiet representation of an action in progress.
Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature
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His metres approach more nearly to the epos than those of Aleman.
Handbook of Universal Literature, From the Best and Latest Autho...
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She found her epos in the reform of a religious order.
Middlemarch
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But the epos, as a whole, had never found its poet.
A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
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No remains have been preserved of these -incunabula- of the Roman epos and drama.
The History of Rome, Book I / The Period Anterior to the Aboliti...
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The method of the drama is his, as well as the method of the epos.
Intentions
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The Finnic epos of "Kalewala" is a curious illustration of the same fact.
Among My Books. First Series
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Therefore it is that the epos of suffering requires not merely time for its accomplishment, but also space.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 / A Magazi...
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The higher kinds of literature-suchas epos, tragedy, history-havedied out or have been arrested in their development.
The History of Rome, Book IV / The Revolution
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The man towered over them in his shabby velvets, declaiming his latest epos in his rich, sonorous voice.
Casket of Souls
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Under such dry light as it offers to our intelligence the whole epos of Christianity seems a vapid dream.
Twenty-One Days in India, or, the Tour Of Sir Ali Baba K.C.B.; a...
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The Vedas and the Homeric epos set before us a world of rich and vigorous life, full of joyous fighting men
Evolution and Ethics, and Other Essays
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Mr. Tennyson had been employed on higher, more truly divine, and yet more truly human work than either epos or drama.
Literary and General Lectures and Essays
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Naevius sought out for the new subject a new form; Ennius fitted or forced it into the forms of the Hellenic epos.
The History of Rome, Book III / From the Union of Italy to the S...
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In our day, mention of the pre-computer age evokes chiefly the splendid epos wherein our poets illustrate the evolution of the world.
The End of Man?
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We are compensated for the loss of this prose work by at least the epos of Ferdausi which has issued from it.
Iranian Influence on Moslem Literature, Part I
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Portuguese
epopéia
Epos through the time