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It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers.
Lascelles Abercrombie / Poet
Attention
Difficult
Reader
Readers
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If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.
Lascelles Abercrombie / Poet
Definite
Epic
Epic Poetry
Fall
Poetry Is
Species
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The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.
Lascelles Abercrombie / Poet
Epic
Firsts
Meant To Be
Recitation
Meant
Literary
Intended
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How to tell students what to look for without telling them what to see is the dilemma of teaching.
Lascelles Abercrombie / Poet
Looks
Students
Teaching
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For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.
Lascelles Abercrombie / Poet
Expression
Firsts
Individuality
Restraint
Vigorous
Conspicuous
Natural Thing
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An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
Lascelles Abercrombie / Poet
Adjusting
Epic
Heroic
Lays
Narrative
Continuous
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Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.
Lascelles Abercrombie / Poet
Artistic Creation
Community
Creation
Mind
Communities
Poets
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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.
Lascelles Abercrombie / Poet
Age
Depends
Doe
Heroic
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Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.
Lascelles Abercrombie / Poet
Attitude
Epic
Epic Poetry
Said
Symbolic
Manner
Strictly
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By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.
Lascelles Abercrombie / Poet
Epic
Epic Poetry
Profound
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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.
Lascelles Abercrombie / Poet
Art
Poet
Spoken Word
Substitutes
Written Word
Founded
Substitute
Spoken
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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.
Lascelles Abercrombie / Poet
Age
Balance
Individuality
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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.
Lascelles Abercrombie / Poet
Balance
Bottom
Civilized
General Welfare
Heroic
Individuality
Welfare
Morals
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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.
Lascelles Abercrombie / Poet
Age
Ballads
Heroic
Hood
Important
Instance
Robin Hood
Robins
Border
Suppose
Robin
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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.
Lascelles Abercrombie / Poet
Artistic
Epic
Extraordinary
Nations
Up And Down
World
Archaeological
Vast
Material
Scattered
Stock
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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.
Lascelles Abercrombie / Poet
Epic
Epic Poetry
Invention
Needs
Independently
Prompted
Similar
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But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.
Lascelles Abercrombie / Poet
Achieve
Difficulty
Important
Recitation
Achieving
Meant
Perhaps
Solely
The Most Important
Verbal
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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.
Lascelles Abercrombie / Poet
Men
Conscious
Determination
Different Kinds
Epic
Poem
Several
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But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition.
Lascelles Abercrombie / Poet
Development
Epic
Human Society
Recurring
Repetition
Series
Exact
Therefore
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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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Composition
Epic
May
Successful
Time Work May
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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 destiny.
Lascelles Abercrombie / Poet
Men
Destiny
Epic
Human Experience
Particular
Perplexed
Significant
Symbolism
Unity
General
Master
Material
Only One Thing
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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 strictly compelling.
Lascelles Abercrombie / Poet
Compelling
Epic
Matter
Style
Narrower
Strictly
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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 quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.
Lascelles Abercrombie / Poet
Easier
Familiar
Listeners
Needed
Stories
Tired
Traditional
Unexpected
Would Be
Chiefly
Glorified
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It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual.
Lascelles Abercrombie / Poet
Believe
Habitual
Mean
Sentiments
Sometimes
Altogether
Imperative
Imply
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