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- noun Alternative form of
epopee .
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Examples
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Then, in the following year, Orlando plunged into epopoeia once more.
The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris ��mile Zola 1871
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Then, in the following year, Orlando plunged into epopoeia once more.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete ��mile Zola 1871
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Then, in the following year, Orlando plunged into epopoeia once more.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 2 ��mile Zola 1871
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And what I say here of characters must apply to all that in this poem is, or ought to be, action and life, and not only in this epopoeia, but also in the dramatic poetry of Klopstock.
The Works of Frederich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782
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And what I say here of characters must apply to all that in this poem is, or ought to be, action and life, and not only in this epopoeia, but also in the dramatic poetry of Klopstock.
Aesthetical Essays of Frederich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782
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Mr. Addison in the _Spectators_, in his criticisms upon Milton, seems to have mistaken the matter, in endeavouring to bring that poem to the rules of the epopoeia, which cannot be done ...
The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700
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To conclude the notes on this book, it may not be unneceflary to ob - ferve, that Camoens, in this epifode, has happily adhered to a principal rule of the epopoeia.
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