Epomania

Full definition of epomania

Noun

1. rage or passion for writing epics
• 1980, Clementine Christos Rabassa, Demetrio Aguilera-Malta and social justice: The tertiary phase of epic tradition in Latin American literature http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0838620795&id=WZAMAAAAIAAJ&q=epomania&dq=epomania&pgis=1Epomania characterized the eighteenth century; and although admirable efforts were expended by the Romantic poets in the next, century, there were no epicists who could stand the test of time as Milton and his predecessors had.