Constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic.
1One final word must be said regarding the interest of epical material.
2And he was not always in the austere and epical mood.
3He sonnets to perfection, but the epical air does not fill his nostrils.
4Brangwyn is never exquisite, though he is often poetic, even epical.
5Such is the stately soaring of the epical Muse, the Muse of ideal history.
6They would have been grandiose, epical; their stories would have been histories of culture.
7Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic.
8But, to keep to the simile, has this epical poem the unity of ocean?
9Wagner sought in the epical rehabilitation of a vanished Valhalla a surcease from the world-pain.
10Besides, its earliest poems are of a purely lyrical and not of an epical type.
11We feel it is epical when man with one wild arrow strikes a distant bird.
12Is it not also epical when man with one wild engine strikes a distant station?
13Lönnrot travelled over Finland, collecting the songs, which he published, arranged in epical form, in 1835.
14This epical value is not to be found, let it be understood, in every so-called novel.
15Perception, emotion, thought, action, find in descriptive, lyrical, reflective, dramatic, and epical poetry their immediate apocalypse.
16The routine that made for a short-lived glory on stage, brought about his epical transformation in movies.