"How to tell students what to look for……" — Lascelles Abercrombie
"How to tell students what to look for without telling them what to see is the dilemma of teaching."
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23 Quotes by Lascelles Abercrombie
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Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production…
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But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving…
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There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an…
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The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but…
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It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not…
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The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the…
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of…
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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…
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No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is…
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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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Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always…
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If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.
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