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heroic poetry

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Noun1.heroic poetry - poetry celebrating the deeds of some hero
poesy, poetry, verse - literature in metrical form


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If you live in this weak, friendly nation, as I do, you're especially susceptible to artists like Syberberg--artists who open the door to a world we thought no longer existed, a world of myths and heroic poetry.
In Allegory and Epic in English Renaissance Literature, Kenneth Borris characterizes heroic poetry in terms of a continuous descent from Homer and Virgil to Sidney, Spenser, and Milton.
Yet these same children will run across the room to read a poem to a friend and will listen fervently when Larry reads the closing sentence of his anthology's introduction: "And so, in talking about heroic poetry, we are speaking not only about heroic people, but about poetry that makes you look into yourself and is, therefore, in itself a hero.
 
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