epicist

American  

[ep-uh-sist] / ˈɛp ə sɪst /

noun

1. a writer of epic poetry.

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Etymology

Origin of epicist

First recorded in 1850–55; epic + -ist

Example Sentences

For Mo Yan, the first Chinese citizen to win the prize, it was “hallucinatory realism”, while Doris Lessing “an epicist of the female experience” subjected “a divided civilisation to scrutiny”.

From The Guardian • Oct. 7, 2019

On winning the Nobel Prize, the Swedish Academy described Lessing as an "epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny".

From BBC • Nov. 17, 2013

But it was the Canopus in Argus sequence, identified by Lessing as her most important work, that the Nobel committee recognised when describing their author as "the epicist of the female experience".

From The Guardian • Jul. 22, 2013

The Nobel committee described you as the "epicist of the female experience."

From Time Magazine Archive

It is, however, difficult to see what subject was open to the epicist after Virgil except to narrate the actual account of what Virgil had painted in ideal colours.

From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Cruttwell, Charles Thomas