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Epic   /ˈɛpɪk/   Listen
Epic

noun
1.
A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds.  Synonyms: epic poem, epos, heroic poem.
adjective
1.
Very imposing or impressive; surpassing the ordinary (especially in size or scale).  Synonyms: heroic, larger-than-life.  "Of heroic proportions" , "Heroic sculpture"
2.
Constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic.  Synonym: epical.



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"Epic" Quotes from Famous Books



... not yet deterred from heroic poetry. There was another monarch of this island (for he did not fetch his heroes from foreign countries) whom he considered as worthy the epic muse, and he dignified "Alfred" (1723) with twelve books. But the opinion of the nation was now settled; a hero introduced by Blackmore was not likely to find either respect or kindness; "Alfred" took his place by "Eliza" in silence and darkness. Benevolence was ashamed to ...
— Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope • Samuel Johnson

... invisible rills and rivers breaking forth from Tir-na-noge, the soul of the island, and glittering in the sunlight of its mystic day. What we see here is imaged forth from that invisible soul and is a path thereto. In the heroic Epic of Cuculain Standish O'Grady writes of such a fountain, and prefixes his chapter with the verse from Genesis, "And four rivers went forth from Eden to water the garden," and what ...
— AE in the Irish Theosophist • George William Russell

... he did over and over again, with unflagging vehemence, with splendid variations, in stories of peasants and wrestlers and thieves and prostitutes. They are all, as his daughter says, epic; she calls them Homeric, but there is none of the Homeric simplicity in this tumult of coloured and clotted speech, in which the language is tortured to make it speak. The comparison with Rabelais is nearer. La recherche ...
— Figures of Several Centuries • Arthur Symons

... Torquato Tasso, he allowed them to pass unharmed out of his reverence for poets and poetry. Mangone was finally taken, and beaten to death with hammers at Naples. He and his like are the heroes of much popular verse, written in ottava rima, and beginning with the traditional epic invocation to the muse. A fine example is "The most beautiful history of the life and death of Pietro Mancino, chief of Banditti," which has remained popular with the people of southern ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 - "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" • Various

... story labors. You know, beforehand, that the little book won instant hearing; you know that "Lyrics" quickly followed, and the favorable verdict of the critics whose good opinion was most worth having. When that wonderful epic—"London: A Poem"—made its appearance, our poet was fairly on the ...
— Old Valentines - A Love Story • Munson Aldrich Havens


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