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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 22 quotes by Lascelles Abercrombie Lascelles Abercrombie Born (1881-01-09)9 January 1881 Ashton upon Mersey, Sale, Cheshire, England, UK Died 27 October 1938(1938-10-27) (aged 57) London, England, UK Occupation Journalist, lecturer Alma mater Malvern College, Owens College Lascelles Abercrombie (/ˈæbərˌkrɒmbi, -ˌkrʌm-/; also known as the Georgian Laureate, linking him with the "Georgian poets"; 9 January 1881 – 27 October 1938) was a British poet and literary critic,... Read full biography of Lascelles Abercrombie → 1 2 Ctrl → 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... → 0 But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or... → 0 An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative. 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read. 0 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... → 0 Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life. 0 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... → 0 Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind. 0 It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers. 0 For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality. 0 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... → 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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