Mock-heroic poems

thumb|Title page of 1556 edition published by Joannes Gryphius (decorative border added subsequently). Hayden White Rare Book Collection, University of California, Santa Cruz.

cycle of Old French fables

Mock-heroic, mock-epic or heroi-comic works are typically satires or parodies that mock the elevated style of common Classical stereotypes of heroes and heroic literature. Typically, mock-heroic works either put a fool in the role of the hero or exaggerate the heroic qualities in relation to a trivial subject.

upright=1.35|thumb|Ysengrimus, from a 12th-century MS in the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

poem by Voltaire

poem by Alessandro Tassoni

book by Vikencij Ravinski