Sentence examples for written epic from inspiring English sources

The vitality of the written epic is manifested by such masterworks as the 14th-century Italian Divine Comedy of Dante and the great Portuguese patriotic poem The Lusíads (1572) of Luís de Camões, which celebrates the voyage of Vasco da Gama to India.

Best known for his novels, he wrote epic and detailed works classified as fictional documentaries.

When I was 3, I was writing epic poetry, horrible, terrible stuff.

Just as Shakespeare wrote epic plays with warring camps, so, after a fashion, has Mr. Edgar here.

Brahms also wrote epic concertos, sonatas and chamber works that at once honored and utterly transformed the Classical forms.

There, bands who write epic songs of masterfully brutal yet symphonic and experimental music draw thousands of fans to their shows.

Shakespeare cut his teeth writing epic dramas for the big open-air playhouses, from multi-part history cycles to the sunny out-of-doors comedies As You Like It and Much Ado About Nothing.

One complainant wrote, "Epic Games failed to protect customer security, resulting in several unsanctioned charges over mine and my partner's account".

Yeats began by writing epic poems such as The Isle of Statues and The Wanderings of Oisin.

The Metamorphoses showed that Ovid was more interested in questioning how the laws interfered with people's lives than in writing epic tales like Virgil's Aeneid and Homer's Odyssey.

And while Vikings did a bang-up job settling Iceland, writing epic sagas and changing the course of English history, even the most manly of hair braids couldn't stand the test of time.