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Epical

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Ep´ic`al
a.1.Epic.
Poems which have an epical character.
- Brande & C.
His [Wordsworth's] longer poems (miscalled epical).
- Lowell.
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Adj.1.epical - constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic; "epic tradition"


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Akin has created an epical masterpiece centered on otherwise ordinary lives disrupted by the restless movements of whole populations from one domain to another.
Crazy Horse was a typical Sioux brave, and from the point of view of our race an ideal hero, living at the height of the epical progress of the American Indian and maintaining in his own character all that was most subtle and ennobling of their spiritual life, and that has since been lost in the contact with a material civilization.
Political writings" is a vexed category, insofar as d'Aubigne's magnum opus, the Tragiques, may be as well regarded as an epical, religious, satirical, and political poem.
 
 
 
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