Lascelles Abercrombie

(17 votes)   For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.

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(16 votes)   An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.

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(14 votes)   Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.

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

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(13 votes)   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.

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(12 votes)   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.

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(13 votes)   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.

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