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Lascelles Abercrombie has 24 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty,…
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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…
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The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very…
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It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the…
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The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the Heroic Age…
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it…
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Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new…
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No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the…
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For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.
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How to tell students what to look for without telling them what to see is the dilemma of teaching.
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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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And a puzzle is for the piecing together, especially for the young, who still believe it can be done.
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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some…
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She was having some difficulty piecing together exactly why she deserved to be in this place, but she wasn't stupid enough to…
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