epopees

The Irish epic is in prose, though it is generally interwoven with numerous poems, for though many epopees exist in rhyme, such as some of the Ossianic poems, they are of modern date, and none of the great and ancient epics we constructed in this way.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

It developed also in a direction of its own, for though none of the heroic tales are wholly in verse, yet the number of Ossianic epopees, ballads, and poems is enormous, amounting to probably some 50,000 lines, mostly in the more modern language.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

"Bustani-Khayâl" (a romance in fifteen volumes), the "Anbiyánáma" and many other epopees, all written within the period A.D.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

This was the moment when the great epopees which are called _chansons de geste_ began to be heard.

Initiation into Literature ��mile Faguet 1881

Are we not, moreover, in the land of fairies, in the home of the Knights of the Round Table and of Merlin, in the mythological birthplace of vanished epopees?

Over Strand and Field Gustave Flaubert 1850

a style of extraordinary ease and clearness; Kästner (1719-1800), a celebrated and acute mathematician, and the author of many epigrams, elegies, odes, and songs; John Elias Schlegel (1718-1749), distinguished for his dramatic compositions; and Zachariae (1726-1777), endowed with a poetical and witty invention, which he displayed in his comic epopees and descriptive poems.

Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities Anne C. Lynch Botta 1853