Lascelles Abercrombie

The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of…

With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he…

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

That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently but, as…

There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into…

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities artistic creation can never…

The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an…

By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art…

The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals…

Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to…

But the development of human society does not go straight forward and the epic process…

But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation…

Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re…