单词 | epopœia |
释义 | epopœian. archaic. = epopee n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > narrative poem > [noun] > epic poem epic1583 epopee1697 epopœia1749 epos1855 1749 R. Hurd Comm. Horace Ars Poet. in Wks. (1811) I. 67 It being more glaringly inconsistent with the genius of the drama to admit of foreign..ornaments, than of the extended Episodical Epopœia. 1756 J. Warton Ess. on Pope I. iii. 127 That the action of the epopea be one, great, and entire. 1782 V. Knox Ess. II. 384 [Stesichorus] gave to lyric poetry all the solemnity of the Epopœa. 1798 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 26 248 He also wrote a tedious epopea, of which Belisarius is the hero. 1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel I. Introd. Ep. p. xv The plot of a regular and connected epopeia. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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