"If epic poetry is a definite species, the……" — Lascelles Abercrombie

"If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it."

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Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production…
But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving…
There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an…
The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but…
It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not…
The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the…
The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of…
Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to…
No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is…
For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.
How to tell students what to look for without telling them what to see is the dilemma of teaching.
Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always…

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