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• Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an…
• But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty,…
• There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to…
• The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very…
• It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the…
• The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the Heroic Age…
• The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it…
• Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new…
• No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the…
• For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.
• How to tell students what to look for without telling them what to see is the dilemma of teaching.
• Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner…

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