Logo
Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie
That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and indep

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

Other quotes by Lascelles Abercrombie

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

Category:
Poetry
Author
Lascelles Abercrombie
Read Quote

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

Category:
Age
Author
Lascelles Abercrombie
Read Quote

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

Category:
Society
Author
Lascelles Abercrombie
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Poetry
category

True poets are those who have received from God, together with the gift of expression, the power of penetrating further than others into the things of the heart and the life. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

Category:
Poetry

So I really began as a failed poet – although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry. – Nicholson Baker

Category:
Poetry

I found that it wasnt so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, theyre kindred spirits. – J. Carter Brown

Category:
Poetry

“Therefore” is a word the poet must not know. – André Gide

Category:
Poetry

Random Quotes

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully. – Graham Greene

Category:
Alcohol

Music is your guide. – Billy Corgan

Category:
Music

Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him. – Henry Ward Beecher

Category:
Attitude

God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor. – Samuel Butler

Category:
God