Possible Clues:

• Back in Canada I liked heroic work
• Narrative set in the Bronze Age
• Incredibly long, incredibly ancient description initially
• Epic film, extremely lacking, upset man of Harlech?
• Irish politicians I sent up in classic work
• Homer's tale
• It begins 'Sing, goddess, the wrath of ...'
• Epic illustration initially kept by painter put up
• Epic work with a “kleos” (glory) theme
• Tale of the 34-Down