A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds.
1The epos is the calm quiet representation of an action in progress.
2His metres approach more nearly to the epos than those of Aleman.
3She found her epos in the reform of a religious order.
4But the epos, as a whole, had never found its poet.
5No remains have been preserved of these -incunabula- of the Roman epos and drama.
6The method of the drama is his, as well as the method of the epos.
7The Finnic epos of "Kalewala" is a curious illustration of the same fact.
8Therefore it is that the epos of suffering requires not merely time for its accomplishment, but also space.
9The higher kinds of literature-suchas epos, tragedy, history-havedied out or have been arrested in their development.
10The man towered over them in his shabby velvets, declaiming his latest epos in his rich, sonorous voice.
11Under such dry light as it offers to our intelligence the whole epos of Christianity seems a vapid dream.
12The Vedas and the Homeric epos set before us a world of rich and vigorous life, full of joyous fighting men
13Mr. Tennyson had been employed on higher, more truly divine, and yet more truly human work than either epos or drama.
14Naevius sought out for the new subject a new form; Ennius fitted or forced it into the forms of the Hellenic epos.
15In our day, mention of the pre-computer age evokes chiefly the splendid epos wherein our poets illustrate the evolution of the world.
16We are compensated for the loss of this prose work by at least the epos of Ferdausi which has issued from it.