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.
Quotes By Lascelles Abercrombie
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But the development of human society does not go straight forward and the...
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Traditional matter must be glorified since it would be easier to listen to...
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That is to say epic poetry has been invented many times and independently...
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If epic poetry is a definite species the sagas do not fall within it.
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By the general process of epic poetry I mean the way this form of art has...
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With several different kinds of poetry to choose from a man would decide...
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Poetry is the work of poets not of peoples or communities artistic creation...
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There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material...
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But the gravest difficulty and perhaps the most important in poetry meant...
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Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly...
Quotes About Age
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The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and...
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The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age and it was a...
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Time in general has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does...
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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the...
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If there is anything I would do differently in my life it is that I would...
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What though youth gave love and roses Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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In a spiritually sensitive culture then it might well be that age is...
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The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing...
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We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem...
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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.