Lowell's genius was not epical, but lyric and didactic.
"Brief History of English and American Literature"
Henry A. Beers
It might take rank next to the epical parting of Hector and Andromache.
"The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)"
Frederic G. Kenyon
They make him amusingly impatient of epical lengths, abrupt in his transitions, and anxious, with an anxiety usually manifested by readers rather than by writers, to come to the point, "to the great effect," as he is wont to call it.
"Chaucer"
Adolphus William Ward