All Lascelles Abercrombie Quotes
- Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind. Artistic
- But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of… Achieve
- There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular… Ability
- The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not… Age
- It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of… Altogether
- The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on… Age
- The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because… Age
- Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things;… Chiefly
- No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and… Art
- For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality. Conspicuous
- How to tell students what to look for without telling them what to see is the dilemma of teaching. Dilemma
- Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life. Attitude
- If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it. Definite
- It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers. Attention
- That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar,… Been
- The epic poet collaborates with the spirit of his time in the composition of his work. That is, if he is successful; the time may… Collaborates
- The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every other poet has behind him… Behind
- The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read. Epic
- The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its… Archaeological
- With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he… Best
- An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative. Adjusting
- But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring… Development
- By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society… Art