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Epic poetry exhibits life in s...

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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No poet will ever take the wri...

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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Poetry is the work of poets, n...

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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There is only one thing which ...

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.

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The Border Ballads, for instan...

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.

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Traditional matter must be glo...

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.

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The balance of private good an...

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.

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The reason can only be this: h...

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.

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How to tell students what to l...

How to tell students what to look for without telling them what to see is the dilemma of teaching.

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It is more difficult to keep t...

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

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It seems difficult, sometimes,...

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.

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If epic poetry is a definite s...

If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.

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For the stage displays the fir...

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

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Epic poetry exhibits life in s...

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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By the general process of epic...

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.

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But the gravest difficulty, an...

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.

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But the development of human s...

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.

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An epic is not made by piecing...

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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With several different kinds o...

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.

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Traditional matter must be glo...

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.

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