Meanings of heroic poem in English

The heroic poem of my friend was a voucher for this remark.

Therefore they are either not faults in an heroic poem, or faults common to the drama.

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

Carlyle says: "No life of a man faithfully recorded but is a heroic poem."

To do otherwise than so, would be like making an heroic poem a man's first attempt.

I actually began my heroic poem in hexameter verse, but could not get through the first canto.

He also wrote a heroic poem on the Coronation of the High and Mighty Monarch James II.

I have, since my twentieth year, meditated an heroic poem on the 'Siege of Jerusalem', by Titus.

But this, I think, is rather a play in narration, as I may call it, than an heroic poem.

Among his works was an heroic poem in twelve books, embodying the legends touching the expedition of the Seven against Thebes.

You have given evidence of great poetical talent, and I read your heroic poem upon the Great Frederick with real delight.

Irenodia Gratulatoria, a heroic poem, being a congratulatory panegyrick for my Lord General's return, summing up his successes in an exquisite manner.

He published, in 1658, a tragic comedy, entitled 'Love's Victory,' and in 1659, 'Pharonnida,' a heroic poem.

He writes it in the French heroic verse, and calls it an heroic poem; his subject is trivial, but his verse is noble.

Not only in lyrical impression, but also in lyrical contemplation and lyrical expression, will the Swedish heroic poem still follow its earliest trend.

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