Epic Poetry Quotes
- He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally.… — Salvatore Quasimodo
- Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life. — Lascelles Abercrombie
- If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it. — Lascelles Abercrombie
- 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,… — Lascelles Abercrombie
- Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left. — Robert Staughton Lynd
- 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… — Lascelles Abercrombie