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Heroic poetry   /hɪrˈoʊɪk pˈoʊətri/   Listen
Heroic poetry

noun
1.
Poetry celebrating the deeds of some hero.  Synonym: epic poetry.





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... came from abroad; of literature there was none, long after Greece had passed its period of heroic poetry. The dwellings of the citizens were low and insignificant, though as time passed on they became more massive and important. The vast public structures of the later kings were comparable to the task-work of the builders of the Egyptian pyramids, ...
— The Story of Rome From the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic • Arthur Gilman


Words linked to "Heroic poetry" :   poesy, poetry, verse


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