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Definition of Heroic poetry
1. Noun. Poetry celebrating the deeds of some hero.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heroic Poetry
Literary usage of Heroic poetry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Methods and Materials of Literary Criticism: Lyric, Epic and Allied Forms of by Charles Mills Gayley, Benjamin Putnam Kurtz (1920)
"What Period in National Civilization seems best fitted to the Production of Heroic
Poetry and the Folk Epic? heroic poetry is a recurring historical ..."
2. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance by Joel Elias Spingarn (1908)
"Vauquelin de la Fresnaye has the Pleiade veneration for heroic poetry; but he
cannot be said to exhibit any more definite conception of its form and ..."
3. The Works of Washington Irving by Washington Irving (1861)
"Scroggins, an attempt at mock heroic poetry. WHILE Goldsmith was yet laboring at
his treatise, the promise made him "by Dr. Milner was carried into effect, ..."
4. Orthometry: A Treatise on the Art of Versification and the Technicalities of by Robert Frederick Brewer (1893)
"EPIC OR heroic poetry. This term is applied only to great and lengthy narrative
poems, in which the dramatic element is also introduced in the form of ..."
5. Works by Washington Irving (1897)
"... an Attempt at Mock-heroic poetry. WHILE Goldsmith was yet laboring at his
treatise, the promise made him by Dr. Milner was carried into effect, ..."
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