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Epic
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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A poem that treats of the events in the life of a nation or a race or the founder of one, agreeably to the passion inspiring it and in such form as to kindle and keep alive the heroism thereof in the generations thereafter; or a poem in celebration of the thoughts, feelings, and feats of a whole nation or race; its proper function is to disimprison the soul of the related facts and give a noble rendering of them; of compositions of this kind the "Iliad" of Homer, the "Æneid" of Virgil, and the "Divine Comedy" of Dante take the lead.
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Public Domain.
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Epic'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/e/epic.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Epic'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/e/epic.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
