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

- Lascelles Abercrombie
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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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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