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With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem.

Author: Lascelles Abercrombie (1881-1938) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 155 | Rank: 0 | Fav

What has just been written will probably do for the Heroic Age which produced Homer, and for that which produced the Nibelungenlied, Beowulf, and the Northern Sagas.

Author: Lascelles Abercrombie (1881-1938) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 163 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed...

Author: Lascelles Abercrombie (1881-1938) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 151 | Rank: 0 | Fav

There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general...

Author: Lascelles Abercrombie (1881-1938) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 192 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its archaeological interest, but not always.

Author: Lascelles Abercrombie (1881-1938) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 207 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.

Author: Lascelles Abercrombie (1881-1938) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 121 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The kind of folk-spirit behind the poet is, indeed, different in the Iliad and Beowulf and the Song of Roland from what it is in Milton and Tasso and Virgil.

Author: Lascelles Abercrombie (1881-1938) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 158 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The invention of epic poetry corresponds with a definite and, in the history of the world, often recurring state of society.

Author: Lascelles Abercrombie (1881-1938) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 146 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The folk-origin of ballads and the multiple authorship of epics are heresies worse than the futilities of the Baconians; at any rate, they are based on the same resolute omission, and build on it a...

Author: Lascelles Abercrombie (1881-1938) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 153 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.

Author: Lascelles Abercrombie (1881-1938) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 158 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every other poet has behind him too; only, for the epic poet, tradition is rather narrower, rather more...

Author: Lascelles Abercrombie (1881-1938) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 194 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The epic poet collaborates with the spirit of his time in the composition of his work. That is, if he is successful; the time may refuse to work with him, but he may not refuse to work with his time.

Author: Lascelles Abercrombie (1881-1938) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 170 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.

Author: Lascelles Abercrombie (1881-1938) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 170 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.

Author: Lascelles Abercrombie (1881-1938) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 162 | Rank: 4.00 | Fav

That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.

Author: Lascelles Abercrombie (1881-1938) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 157 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

Author: Lascelles Abercrombie (1881-1938) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 201 | Rank: 0 | Fav

No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.

Author: Lascelles Abercrombie (1881-1938) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 179 | Rank: 0 | Fav

No one will ever imagine character more deeply or more firmly than Homer did in, say, Achilles; but Apollonius was the man who showed how epic as well as drama may use the nice minutiae of...

Author: Lascelles Abercrombie (1881-1938) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 170 | Rank: 0 | Fav

No great poetry, of whatever kind, is conceivable unless the subject has become integrated with the poet's mind and mood.

Author: Lascelles Abercrombie (1881-1938) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 164 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Man creating his own destiny, man, however wearied with the long task of resistance, achieving some conscious community of aspiration, and dreaming of the perfection of himself: the poet whose...

Author: Lascelles Abercrombie (1881-1938) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 188 | Rank: 0 | Fav
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