Definite Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie Download Open image “If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.” — Lascelles Abercrombie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Definite Epic Epic poetry Fall Poetry Poetry is Saga Species
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 Copy Share Image
An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative. — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every other poet has behind… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths. — Gilbert Murray Copy Share Image
“Heroic poetry tends in its simplest form to be concerned with immediate events and local heroes. A certain length of tradition is required before the epic poem, telling the story of the hero, becomes current. Heroic poetry assumes that the audience knew what the outcome of the battle was, and is concerned with individual feats; the context is of little… — Richard Barber Copy Share
Mythologies, in other words, mythologies and religions are great poems and, when recognized as such, point infallibly through things and events to the ubiquity… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a… — Hart Crane Copy Share Image
The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every other poet has behind… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word,… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative. — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
How to tell students what to look for without telling them what to see is the dilemma of teaching. — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
The album is a definite departure. I haven't written original material before, except for one song on my first album, but Elvis and I… — Diana Krall Copy Share Image
Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling. — John Wooden Copy Share Image
I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I have come to the definite conclusion that musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed. — Shinichi Suzuki Copy Share Image
Anarchism is a definite intellectual current in the life of our times, whose adherents advocate the abolition of economic monopolies and of all political and social coercive institutions within society. In place of the present capitalistic economic order Anarchists would have a free association of all productive forces based upon co-operative labour, which would have as its sole purpose the… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share
First of all, principles should be general. That is, it must be possible to formulate them without use of what would be intuitively recognized… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
The word of the Lord never comes to us as an opinion, no attempt is made to support it by argument, it comes as… — Anthony W. Ivins Copy Share Image
Since the season ended, I've let things settle down, and I have to talk to the coaching staff and management. I really don't want… — Steve Yzerman Copy Share Image
The way you look on the outside has a definite bearing on how you feel and see yourself on the inside. — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
A model is a good model if first it interprets a wide range of observations in terms of a simple and elegant model, and… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
