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- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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