What is epic?

Famous quotes containing the word epic:

    I am not a great man, but sometimes I think the impersonal and objective equality of my talent and the sacrifices of it, in pieces, to preserve its essential value has some sort of epic grandeur.
    F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

    The epic of disbelief
    Blares oftener and soon, will soon be constant.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    An epic of worry rather than of high tragedy.
    —E.M. (Edward Morgan)