Epic Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie Download Open image “The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.” — Lascelles Abercrombie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Epic Epic Meant Epics Epics Intended Firsts Literary Epic Meant to be Recitation Recitation Literary
“Literature is as old as human language, and as new as tomorrow's sunrise. And literature is everywhere, not only in books, but in videos,… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
I'm struggling with what is epic. People decided I was epic - if by epic, do you mean a big, heavy book? 'David Copperfield'… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“...but which of us has read every line of the Iliad, or the Aeneid, or The Divine Comedy, or Paradise Lost? Only men of… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
I didn't need to write historical epics, no, or science fiction, though I read a lot of science fiction as a kid and rather… — John Updike 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
For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer.… — Tariq Ali 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
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
It seems far simpler to go ahead and say that the epic is a fantastic myth, that happens to be true of the material… — Ursula Goodenough Copy Share Image
There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
I like the idea of building this wandering, epic narrative in a form that people don't expect epic narratives to appear. — Lucas Neff 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
My first three manuscripts were epic fantasy - like high fantasy - and then the fourth one was a historical fantasy about Mozart as… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
'Forever Evil' is my love letter to DC super villains. It's my chance to take all of the villains I've worked with and all… — Geoff Johns Copy Share Image
The epic disappeared along with the age of personal heroism; there can be no epic with artillery. — Ernest Renan 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
“An epic without a focus - without a single action, a coherent plot, a single terrible point to make - was just a very… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting. — Giles Foden Copy Share Image
The richly cadenced prose is hypnotic, the research prodigious, the analysis acute, the mood spellbinding, and the cast of characters mythic in scale. I… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
I want to do character driven epic storylines with Throne of Atlantis kicking off. — Geoff Johns Copy Share Image
When you think about it, some people don't like certain things, but when it comes to music, no matter who you are, where you're… — Niall Horan Copy Share Image
